Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute

The Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute is the only pharmaceutical higher education institution in Central Asia. It was formally established 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 specialists not only in Uzbekistan but in all Central Asian countries.

The Institute has turned 85 years, and after a short history of its formation, formation and development, today it is a large educational, scientific, spiritual and educational center with significant potential and high creative potential. In the years of independence, it has achieved great success in reforming pharmaceutical education.

Nowadays there are more than 300 professors and teachers in the faculties and departments of the Institute, 55 doctors and over 120 candidates of science. They train highly qualified pharmacists, biotechnologists, pharmaceutical engineers, pharmaceutical engineers and cosmetics technologists in the country. At the same time, it has been honored to develop pharmaceutical science, to improve the drug supply of the population, 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 technical problems at the highest level is a priority task for all higher education institutions of the Republic.

For many years, the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute trained only one specialty - pharmacy, State educational standards, and curricula mainly focused on pharmacy, drug preparation, and quality control. Adoption of the National Program for Personnel Training in the country required radical change and improvement of the system of education, including pharmaceutical cadres.

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

The concept of the pharmaceutical business organization included such concepts as \"Drug Policy\", \"Logistics\",\"Counterfeit Drugs\", and \"Pharmaceutical Economy\".

New complementary disciplines are included in the medical-biological sciences: clinical pharmacy, pharmacokinetics, pharmacological biochemistry, and pharmaceutical care.

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

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

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