The development of new medicines relies on knowledge from several scientific fields. In this programme, you explore how drugs move through the entire development process—from early discovery to finished pharmaceutical products.
You gain knowledge of how promising molecules are identified, developed, and tested, how formulations are designed, how production processes are scaled up, and how medicines meet regulatory requirements before reaching patients.
You will work with both small-molecule drugs and advanced therapeutics such as peptides, proteins, vaccines, and antibodies. During the programme, you will learn about central areas of pharmaceutical development—for example, drug delivery, immunology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and pharmaceutical process development.
The programme is highly interdisciplinary and combines perspectives from biology, chemistry, and engineering. You will often work in groups with fellow students from different scientific backgrounds, reflecting the collaborative nature of modern pharmaceutical research and development. Through courses, projects, and laboratory work, you develop the competences to collaborate across disciplines and understand how different specialists contribute to the development of safe and effective medicines.
This broad perspective prepares you to contribute to innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries and to help translate scientific discoveries into treatments that benefit patients.
