Industrial Pharmacy: A Comprehensive Approach

The aim of a pharmaceutical industry is to discover, develop, manufacture, and market safe and therapeutically effective medicines with the highest standards. Industrial pharmacy is a discipline that deals in development, manufacture, quality assurance, and distribution of drug products. Thus, Industrial pharmacy or Pharmaceutics is not a subject of single area; it requires knowledge of chemistry, pharmacology, microbiology, biochemistry, etc. for successful formulation development the physicochemical properties of the drug, its interaction with other ingredients, biopharmaceutical considerations of the pure drug and of its formulation, safety and therapeutic effectiveness need to be considered. Researchers have been working to meet therapeutic as well as patients’ requirements, as a result newer delivery systems are developed. However, it is essential for the students to understand the concepts of development and manufacture of drug delivery systems. The book, Industrial Pharmacy: A comprehensive Approach has been designed and prepared to transform the fundamental knowledge about various conventional dosage forms. In fact more than 90% of the preparations available in the market are of conventional type. Therefore the students pursuing pharmacy course at any level can gain basic information for development and manufacture of drug delivery systems. The language of this book is also simple to understand. Contents: Section I: Essentials Of Dosage Form Design, Section II: Solid Dosage Forms, Section III: Semisolid Dosage Forms, Section IV: Liquid Dosage Forms, Section v: Gaseous Dosage Forms, Section VI: Sterile Products, section VII: Pharmaceutical Packaging, Section VIII: Validation Of Pharmaceutical Processes. About the Author: D.K.Tripathi, a Professor of Pharmaceutics, has been working as Principal at Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Bhilai since 2009. He is presently the Dean of Faculty in Pharmacy of Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University (CSVTU). He has completed his Graduation, Post graduation and Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacy from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.Dr. Tripathi possesses about 40 years of professional experience in industry, academic, research, and administration. He has worked in different pharmaceutical industries and in various educational institutions. In Eastern and Central India, Dr. Tripathi is well known. He has authored a book, Introduction to Pharmaceutics which is enlisted in the syllabus of CSVTU.He has more than 100 publications in different Journals, National and International of repute. He has supervised research projects at post graduate as well as at Ph.D level. Dr. Tripathi is an approved Supervisor and Examiner of different Universities. He is a life member of IPA, ISTE, APTI and Indian Society of Pharmacognosy.