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Recommended Conferences for Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pharmaceutical Sciences

The pharmaceutical sciences combine a broad range of scientific disciplines that are critical to the discovery and development of new drugs and therapies. Pharmaceutical sciences can be broadly classified into the following main categories, with many specialized fields within each category.
Drug Discovery and Design:
Drug Discovery and Design deals with the design and synthesis of new drug molecules. This category includes specialized fields of study such as medicinal chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, structural biology, identification of biological targets, and assay development to test drug candidates.
Drug Delivery:
Drug Delivery is concerned with the design of dosage forms -- such as tablets, injections or patches -- that will deliver the drug to the site of action in a patient. The purpose is to ensure that the drug arrives in the right concentration and at the right time. Specialty fields within Drug Delivery include pharmaceutics, biomaterials, and pharmacokinetics.
Drug Action:
Drug Action examines how the drug itself actually works in a living system, which is the definition of pharmacology. The action of the drug can be studied at the molecular level, in a cell, an organ, and in animals. Specialty fields within Drug Action include molecular biology, pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, toxicology, and biochemistry.
Clinical Sciences:
Clinical Sciences are concerned with the use of drugs in the treatment of diseases. Particular properties of new drugs -- such as efficacy, adverse effects, drug-to-drug interaction, and bioavailability - are determined in clinical trials in humans.
Drug Analysis:
Drug Analysis involves separating, identifying, and quantifying the components of a sample. Analytical chemistry is an important component of all areas of the pharmaceutical sciences.
Cost Effectiveness of Medicines (Pharmacoeconomics):
Cost Effectiveness of Medicines (Pharmacoeconomics) examines the economic savings from the use of one drug rather than others, with regard to costs for the drug itself and patient management (e.g., compliance, quality of life, physician visits, potential hospitalization).
Regulatory Affairs:
Regulatory Affairs promotes communication, understanding, and cooperation between scientists from industry and academia and the regulatory authorities worldwide who govern approval and distribution, by means of developing regulatory guidelines.
More and more, these categories are beginning to overlap. For example, a scientific engineer working in Drug Delivery needs to understand how toxicology affects Drug Action, and a chemist working in Drug Discovery and Design must know about the pharmacokinetics of Drug Delivery. For this reason, pharmaceutical scientists are required to have a broad base of knowledge in a variety of sciences.

Various workshops and symposiums across the globe are:
• Workshop on Improving Oral Bioavailability by Lipid-Based Delivery • Workshop on Animal Health Drug R&D: Formulation, Delivery and Development to Market • IIPC workshop on nanocarriars: An emerging platform for drug delivery • IIPC Workshop on “Recent Trends in Drug Discovery” • Indo-US Symposium on Nanotechnology in Advanced Drug Delivery • 17th International Pharmaceutical Technology Symposium • Central European Symposium on Pharmceutical Technology • Intermediate Workshop on PK/PD Data Analysis: A four-day Course UsingWinNonlin • Symposium on Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis • Joint WHO-UNICEF-UNFPA meeting with pharmaceutical and diagnostics manufacturers and suppliers List of Associations:
• European federation on Pharmaceutical sciences • The International Postgraduate Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences • Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America • National Pharmaceutical Association • American Pharmacists Association • Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) • American Association of Pakistani Pharmaceutical Scientists • American Society of Pharmacognosy • Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy • Indian Pharmaceutical Association • Kuwait Pharmaceutical Association • Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society List of Conferences:
• PHARMA 2014 • PHARMATECH 2014 • World Pharma Congress 2014 • European Pharma Congress-2015 • American Pharma Congress-2015 • Asia Pacific Pharma Congress-2015 • Australian Pharma Congress-2105 • International Pharmaceutical Conference -Contemporary developments in pharmacy • 1st International Congress: from drug discovery to drug delivery • Conference on Pharmaceutica Sciences: Strategies to Improve the Quality and Performance of Modern Drug Delivery Systems< List of Companies: • Pfizer, USA • Novartis, Switzerland • Merck & Co., USA • Bayer, Germany • GlaxoSmithKline, UK • Johnson & Johnson, USA • Sanofi, France • Hoffmann–La Roche, Switzerland • AstraZeneca, UK • Abbott Laboratories, USA

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This page was last updated on April 25, 2024