Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings

• 10 - Health and related fields
• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.20 - Pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences and administration

51.2003 - Pharmaceutics and drug design (MS, MSc, PhD)

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of the formulation of medicinal substances into product vehicles capable of being stored, transported, and then introduced into the patient and behaving in ways optimal to therapeutic interaction. These programs include courses in statistics, biopharmaceutics, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, physical pharmacy, pharmacological analysis, drug design and development, pharmacological biotechnology, chemical separations, spectroscopy, drug-host interactions, immunology, quantitative drug measurement, enzymatic transformations, and metabolic excretion.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • drug design
  • pharmaceutics
  • pharmaceutics and drug design

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• Exclusion(s)

  • biomedical toxicology(26.1004)
  • pharmaceutical engineering(14.0799)
  • pharmacology(26.1001)