Graduate School | Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Master of Science (MS) Degree

The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry provides knowledge on topics such as design, synthesis and analysis of novel therapeutic compounds to obtain useful drugs, the construction of qualitative and quantitative relationships between chemical structures of drugs and their activities, chemical aspects of drug behaviour during the phases from the administration of drugs into the body to their excretion, etc. The principal education philosophy of the department has been to provide a sound professional training which has been consistent with the current scientific and technological developments, with the support of practice in laboratory applications in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry has been offering Master Science (M.Sc.) and Doctorate (Ph.D.) degrees at the Graduate School of Health Sciences since 1993. Seven professors, 5 associate professors, 1 lecturer and 1 research assistant are currently working in the department. Students have to take mandatory and elective courses and submit a thesis based on their research. After the submission of thesis to the Graduate School of Health Sciences, students should defend orally their research to a jury of three experts. Students usually complete the programme in approximately two years.