This Discipline focuses on composition, preparation, and quality control of drugs. It also involves designing drug configurations, and testing and producing them in an industrial setting. Pharmaceutical technology focuses on:

• The conditions that allow active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and pharmaceutical excipients to be transformed into medicines 
• The patterns that control these processes 
• The relationships between drug formulations and their effects when applied 
• The origin, properties, effects, dosage, and dispensation of medicines