Faculty of Pharmaceutics

• A unique community of lecturers, including pharmacist, biologists, philologists, and doctors.
• Expertise since 1993.
• Over 60 disciplines (history of pharmacy and medicine, Latin language and bioethics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical engineering, pharmacy business organisation, pharmaceutical marketing and management, pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, pharmaceutical counselling, and others).
• 4 educational levels/stages (secondary vocational education, specialist’s degree, postgraduate and residency programmes).
• Further professional education programmes.
• Application of state of the art electronic educational resources and distance learning technologies.
• Staff members of the faculty are many time laureates of the prize of the Government of the Voronezh Region for the work in the area of research and education.
• Over 2,000 publications, including 62 patents of the Russian Federation, 2 discoveries, 12 monographs, and over 200 didactic materials.
• The graduates and postgraduate students of the faculty have used their professional qualities and personal talents to build a successful career in teaching, management, the pharmaceutical industry, and business.

Specialist's degree

• 33.05.01 Pharmacy

Residency Training

• 33.08.02 Management and Economics of Pharmacy
• 33.08.01 Pharmaceutical Engineering
• 33.08.03. Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

Postgraduate Training Programmes

• 33.06.01 Pharmacy
• 4.04.02 Specialisation: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacognosy
• 14.04.01 Specialisation: Drug Formulation
• 14.04.03 Specialisation: Pharmacy Business Organisation

Secondary vocational education

• 33.02.01 Pharmacy

Study options

• Full-time
• Extramural

Duration

• Specialist’s degree programmes (full-time) – 5 years
• Residency programmes (full-time) – 2 years
• Secondary vocational education programmes (full-time) – 3 years 10 months
• Postgraduate training programmes (full-time) – 3 years
• Postgraduate training programmes (extramural) – 4 years

Academic Staff

Academic staff at the faculty consists of 41 people, including 3 professors, 13 associate professors, 18 assistants, 5 lectures, and 2 senior lecturers.

Academic staff members from other VSU faculties (116) are also engaged in the educational process. Among them, 73% have an academic degree and 26% have a title, including 18% of staff members with a DSc degree and 8% of professors.

The active involvement of representatives of employers is an indispensable condition for the implementation of the educational process.

Educational facilities / resources

Laboratories

• Medicine Standardisation Laboratory
• Pharmaceutics Laboratory
• Pharmacognosy Laboratory
• Physicochemical Research Methods Laboratory
• Computer Laboratory

Practical training facilities

• Over 40 pharmacy and medical organisations in Voronezh
• Regional Centre for the Certification and Quality Control of Medical Substances
• ООО Farmtekhnologii plus
• OOO Farmservis
• Multi-purpose innovative pharmaceutical plant ZAO Rafarma
• VSU Botanical Garden
• VSU’s nature reserve “Galichya Gora” (Lipetsk Region)

Long-term cooperation agreements

• International biopharmaceutical company Sanofi
• Pharmaceutical company Sotex
• ZAO Rafarma
• OOO PIK-Farma
• Bionorica SE (world leader among manufacturers of herbal medicines)

Key areas of research

• Studying bioequivalence of generics by means of the biowaiver procedure and the dissolution test.
• Standardisation of medicinal plant raw materials and herbal medicines based on them.
• Development of the composition, production technology, and standardisation methods and biopharmaceutical studies of new dosage forms with a nootropic, antidiabetic, wound healing, and antibacterial activity.
• Formulation and standardisation of immobilised forms of drugs of different groups (P.M. Karlov).
• Ecological assessment of medicinal plant raw materials in the Central Black Earth Region.
• Studying solid dispersion systems and obtaining dosage forms based on them.
• Studying specific features of marketing and management in the pharmaceutical business.
• Studying issues of professional training and rational management of pharmaceutical specialists.
• Pharmacognostic studies of new, unconventional plants as potential sources of new medicines.
• Non-clinical studies of medicinal products, including studying wound healing, gastroprotective, hepatoprotective, hypoglycemic, anti-inflammatory, analgetic, and adaptogenic properties.

Research facilities/resources

• Professor Michael A. Popp Phytoneering Research Laboratory
• Vivarium of the Faculty of Pharmaceutics

International partner universities

• Vitebsk State Medical University (Republic of Belarus)
• University of Zagreb (Croatia)
• University of Innsbruck (Austria)
• Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute (Uzbekistan)
• West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University (Republic of Kazakhstan)
• Al Andalus University for Medical Sciences (Syria)
• Manara University (Syria)

International programmes and projects

• Joint research projects, conferences, student exchange programmes, and internships as part of the international cooperation with Bionorica SE pharmaceutical company (Europe).
• International project “Piloting ECVET to the national VET system of Russia and Uzbekistan” as part of the Erasmus+ programme “Capacity Building in Higher Education”.
• Cooperation with the Faculty of Pharmaceutics at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) as part of the Erasmus+ programme “Credit Mobility”.
• Professional training as part of the international student exchange programme with the Faculty of Pharmaceutics at Tartu University (Estonia), including one-term programmes in English which provide an opportunity to receive a Sommerkurse DAAD grant.