Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Social Pharmacy

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Social Pharmacy has appointed ten full-time academic lecturers: one professor, four associate professors and six assistant professors.

The Department is structured in two sections.

• Pharmaceutical Technology

• Social Pharmacy

Assos. prof. Hristina Lebanova, MPharm, PhD

Prof. Petkana Hristova, PhD, DSc

Assoc. prof. Nadia Veleva, PhD

Core courses:

• Pharmaceutical Technology
• Social pharmacy and pharmaceutical legislation
• Medical statistics
• Pharmaceutical care
• Pharmacoeconomics

Optional courses:

• Health Technology Assessment
• History of Pharmacy
• Drug policy
• Pharmaceutical marketing
• Standards for good practices in the pharmaceutical system
• Clinical trials of medicinal products
• Procedures for drug registration
• Processes and equipment in industrial pharmacy

Experimental laboratories:

Pharmaceutical Technology – 6;

Available equipment in Pharmaceutical Technology labs:

Mixer and Granulator; Fully Automatic Capsule Filling Machine; Rotary Tablet Press; Forced Convection Oven; Fume Hood; Falling Ball Viscometer; Flowability Tester; Tablet Friability Tester; Tapped Density Tester; Semi-Automatic Hardness Tester; Tablet Disintegration Tester; pH meters; Titration setup; Water Baths; Laminar Flow Hood; Autoclave; Laboratory glassware etc.

Available equipment in Biopharmaceutical Control lab:

Infrared Spectrophotometer; Dissolution Apparatus; Water bath; Laboratory glassware etc.

Research fields:

Pharmaceutical technology

Preparation and modification of polymeric microspheres

Modified-release dosage forms

Biopharmaceutical control

Social Pharmacy

Pharmacovigilance

Pharmacoepidemiology

Health technology assessment

Pharmacoeconomics