As AAPS celebrates its 30-year anniversary, it looks at drug development in three critical areas.
By Mark Crawford
Human health is an extraordinarily broad field, with multiple, ever-changing, fronts. Pharmaceutical science achievements—breakthroughs in disease therapies, vaccines, biologics, gene therapy, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, for example—have played critical roles over the last 30 years in improving longevity and the quality of life around the world. With these and other successes, the field of pharmaceutical science has expanded to include drug discovery, biotechnology, clinical pharmacology and translational research, formulation design and development, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, biopharmaceutics, and manufacturing science and engineering.