After completing the educational program, you will become a specialist that able to improve professional competencies for the development, production and registration of medicines and medical products, control and assurance of their quality, marketing, strategic planning, innovative development of pharmaceutical enterprises, development of appropriate strategies for individual and collective action.

You will learn:

• to carry out the development, organization and conduct of the technological process for the production of drugs in accordance with the regulatory requirements of the State Pharmacopoeia of the Republic of Kazakhstan, taking into account the relationship of their structure, chemical properties and biological activity;
• organize the production of drugs in various dosage forms using innovative technologies, in accordance with the requirements of Good Pharmaceutical Practices (GMP, GPP, GDP, GVP); develop regulatory documentation for dosage forms/drugs; create reports on the validation of production technology and establish stability;
• conduct a comparative analysis of the most rational, economically and environmentally sound technologies for the production of herbal medicines (phytopreparations);
• apply advanced physical and chemical methods of analysis for the qualitative and quantitative determination of substances and excipients in medical products, for quality control and detection of falsified, poor-quality and counterfeit medicinal products;
• develop novel medicinal substances taking into account the mechanism of their action; carrying out the main stages of their production from R&D to their state registration;
• apply fundamental and advanced knowledge and methodologies in the field of chemical technology of organic substances and materials in to teaching activities at the Higher School.

Where can you work?

• at pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises;
• in laboratories for screening and preclinical studies of drugs and medical devices;
• in organizational and managerial structures for the examination and control of legal norms for the production of biologically safe and effective drugs and medical products, their registration and pharmaceutical supervision;
• in the pharmacy network for the manufacture of prescription drugs and their dispensing, at enterprises in the field of their management and marketing;
• in educational, research, production and other organizations and enterprises specializing in the field of screening, preclinical research, development, research, manufacture, standardization, quality control, storage and introduction into production of medicines and preparations;
• in institutions of consulting and distribution networks;
• in representative offices of foreign pharmaceutical companies.

Upon completion the educational program 7М07203 – “Technology of Pharmaceutical Production”, graduates can enroll in the master's educational programs such as “Chemistry”, “Chemical Technology of Inorganic Substances”, “Chemical Technology of Organic Substances”.

Examples of vacancies for specialists with similar skills (source: hh.kz, enbek.kz, March 2023)

Some key employers for the future employment of graduates in this EP:

Academic mobility of master's students

Academic mobility is carried out by the following partner universities within the framework of the educational program:

• N.N. Vorozhtsov Institute of Organic Chemistry (Novosibirsk, Russia)
• Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the People's Republic of China (Qingzian, China)
• Institute for Nanomaterials Development and Innovation of the University of Memphis (USA)
• Khojateppe University (Ankara, Turkey)
• Rostock University (Germany)
• University of Potsdam (Germany)
• University of Reading (UK)
• Gyeongsang National University (South Korea)
• Mugla Sitka Kochman University (Turkey)
• University of Science Malaysia (Malaysia)
• Shanghai Institute of Medicinal Substances, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
• University of Malaya (Malaysia)
• University of Mississippi, National Center for Natural Products Research (USA)
• International Center of Chemical and Biological Sciences of the University of Karachi (Pakistan)
• Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
• Saint Petersburg State University of Chemistry and Pharmacy (Russia)
• Innotex Pharmaceutical Holding LLC (Russia, Kaliningrad)
• Kazan Medical University (Russia)
• Institute of Plant Chemistry named after Academician S.Yu. Yunusov of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan)
• Laboratory of Radiation Modification of Polymers of the A. N. Enikolopov Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
• Hoshi University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Tokyo, Japan)
• Anadolu University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, (Eskisehir, Turkey)
• University of Porto, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), (Porto, Portugal)
• Griffith Institute for Drug Development, Griffith University, (Brisbane, Australia)