Research

Department of Pharmaceutical Technology

Professor Yoshinori Onuki, Ph.D.

Pharmaceuticals are designed by considering various characteristics (e.g., safety, efficacy and quality). In general, their characteristics are affected by many formulation factors (e.g., physicochemical properties of drug, formulation, and process parameters) in complicated manner. For the development of pharmaceuticals, it is crucial to understand fully the complicated relationships between formulation factors and characteristics and then to optimize their formulations and process parameters. The aim of our department is to promote the further development of the pharmaceutical technology through the outstanding pharmaceutical researches. Especially, we are focusing on establishment of novel technologies for the development of pharmaceuticals based on statistics and computer simulation. Furthermore, we are investigating physical properties of pharmaceuticals using cutting-edge technologies including molecular imaging techniques.

Our research projects

  • 1. Development of optimization techniques for designing pharmaceutical formulations and manufacturing processes
  • 2. Studies on pharmaceutical characteristics using molecular imaging techniques