The Role of Schools of Pharmacy in the Evaluation and Introduction of New Drug Products

AbstractThe concepts of biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinet ics emerged from the pharmaceutical sciences in the 1950s and were a natural progression of the emphasis given to physical pharmacy education that emerged in the 1940s. When schools of pharmacy prepared their postgraduates with an appropriate- balanced education in ruathematics, physical-analytical chemistry, organic chemistry and other basic sciences, and these people entered the RD and drug product development, and evaluation in human subjects became very dependent upon pharmacokinetic principles.With the establishment of clinical education, in America, and the placing of clinically trained pharmacy ed...