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PSC3222

Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

18 September 2017 20 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Dr Angus Johnston

Offered

Parkville

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Notes

This unit was previously coded as PSC3272

Synopsis

This subject will cover advanced drug delivery nanotechnologies and parenteral formulations.

This will involve three main modules:

  1. Drug delivery nanotechnologies
    • micelles
    • emulsions
    • microemulsions
    • liposomes
    • nanosuspensions
    • cyclodextrins
    • lipid based oral formulations

  1. Characterization
    • microscopy
    • internal structure
    • surface properties
    • drug encapsulation and release

  1. Diagnostics and imaging applications of nanotechnologies
    • imaging modalities
    • nanotechnologies in bioimaging

Outcomes

Describe the principles behind the formulation of nanotechnology drug delivery systems, and the way they behave in invitro and in vivo environments.Describe, and conduct in practicals, the methods of characterization of nanotech drug delivery systems. Describe different modes of imaging and how nanotechnology can be used to improve imaging techniques. Describe typical approaches to diagnostics and describe the role of advanced formulation and nanotechnologies in modern diagnostics.

Assessment

Final exam (3 hour): 60%; Practical Reports: 30%; In semester Week 6 online MCQ test: 10%.

Workload requirements

Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Twenty four 1-hour group preparation exercises for lecture workshops
  • Twenty four 1-hour lecture workshops
  • Eight 3-hour practicals

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Angus Johnston

Prerequisites

PSC2222 Formulation Chemistry
PSC2232 Colloid Chemistry

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.monash.edu/pharm/current/