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History
The University of Debrecen
was founded in 1912. The Faculty of Medicine was inaugurated
in 1918. In present days, Debrecen is still renowned
for its outstanding educational resources and institutes
of higher education. More than ten thousand students
attend the University of Debrecen in each year. The
education of pharmacists began within the framework
of a joint education program between the University
Medical School of Debrecen and the former Lajos Kossuth
University with Consent of the National Accreditation
Committee and the Higher Education Board in 1996. The
Faculty of Pharmacy currently consists of six departments
including the Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics, Biopharmacy,
Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical
Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Management. The cooperative
collaboration between the Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty
of Medicine, and Faculty of Sciences is an ongoing project
and on absolutely necessary step for the higher education
of pharmacists in the city of Debrecen.
General introduction
and mission
The pharmacy education
conforms to a great extent of European standards answering
at the needs of the 21st century in Health Care. The
main goal of the Faculty of Pharmacy is to improve education
and to promote the creation of new courses and educational
structures in order to rationalize training, and approach
the access of the European Union to various fields,
including pharmacy education of the health sciences.
The primary mission of the University of Debrecen, Faculty
of Pharmacy is to serve the pharmaceutical health care
needs of Hungary and foreign countries by educating
pharmacists to be able to provide contemporary as well
as innovative pharmacy services. The Faculty of Pharmacy
offers a dynamic curriculum, which includes a broad
base of both didactic and experiential components, enabling
the graduate to develop practical skills that will enable
him/her to function effectively and efficiently in a
changing and challenging health care environment. Consistent
with this mission, contribution to the body of pharmaceutical
knowledge through scholarly activity and service are
also important goals.
Research
The research activity
of the six departments of the Faculty of Pharmacy focuses
on the structure, synthesis, and development of new
antimicrobial therapeutic agents (Dept. of Pharmaceutical
Chemistry), the formulation and manufacturing of capsules
and tablets (Dept. of Pharmaceutical Technology), the
function and modulation of endocrine system (Dept. of
Biopharmacy), the improvement of management of pharmacy
(Dept. of Management), and the function and diseases
of the cardiovascular system (Dept. Pharmacology and
Pharmacodynamics) including arrhythmias, ischemia, infarction,
and diabetes. The Department of Clinical Pharmacology
focuses on the development of various new therapeutic
agents in clinics and in a close collaboration with
the Departments of Biopharmacy and Pharmacology and
Pharmacodynamics.
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Heads of Departments