Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute

The Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute is the onlypharmaceutical higher education institution in Central Asia. It was formallyestablished on July 16, 1937, by the order of the People's Commissar of Public Health of Uzbekistan on the basis of separate chairs of the Tashkent MedicalInstitute. This event laid the groundwork for the training of pharmaceutical specialistsnot only in Uzbekistan but in all Central Asian countries.

The Institute has turned 80 years, and after a shorthistory of its formation, formation and development, today it is a largeeducational, scientific, spiritual and educational center with significantpotential and high creative potential. In the years of independence, it hasachieved great success in reforming pharmaceutical education.

Nowadays there are more than 200 professors andteachers in the faculties and departments of the Institute, 35 doctors and over100 candidates of science. They train highly qualified pharmacists,biotechnologists, pharmaceutical engineers, pharmaceutical engineers andcosmetics technologists in the country. At the same time, it has been honoredto develop pharmaceutical science, to improve the drug supply of thepopulation, and to create high-quality, new drugs based on local raw materials.are coming.

It is well-known that training of highly qualified,competitive staff capable to solve social, economic, scientific and technicalproblems at the highest level is a priority task for all higher educationinstitutions of the Republic.

For many years, the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institutetrained only one specialty - pharmacy, State educational standards, and curriculamainly focused on pharmacy, drug preparation, and quality control. Adoption ofthe National Program for Personnel Training in the country required radicalchange and improvement of the system of education, including pharmaceuticalcadres.

Initially, the curriculum was revised and changes weremade to the curricula in the specialty. In particular, instead of memorizing“complex chemical synthesis and other information in pharmaceutical chemistrythat is of great importance for future professional work, the emphasis is onthe control, quality, standardization, and certification of medicines.

The concept of pharmaceutical business organizationincluded such concepts as "Drug Policy", "Logistics","Counterfeit Drugs", "Pharmaceutical Economy".

New complementary disciplines are included in themedical biological sciences: clinical pharmacy, pharmacokinetics,pharmacological biochemistry, pharmaceutical care.

The rapid development of the pharmaceutical sector inthe years of independence has required a new generation of personnel for thesector and the development of a long-term strategy for their training. First ofall, it is necessary to improve the subjects in the curriculum, to create newdirections in accordance with the requirements of applied pharmaceuticals.

This includes the following directions: "ClinicalPharmacy", "Industrial Pharmacy", "Cosmetics" and "Pharmaceutical Chemistry andPharmacognosy", "Organization and Management of PharmaceuticalBusiness", "Industrial Technology of Drugs". The basis for theorganization of Master's Degree in "Technology of immunobiological andmicrobiological preparations".

The near future ofpharmaceutical education is related to the training of specialistswho meet modern society's requirements for the pharmaceutical industry,with continuous self-improvement and continuous professional development, aswell as in collaboration with advanced science and production andpharmaceutical education institutions.