Monthly Archives: October 2018

The early years of the pharmaceutical industry were uneasy and the industry as we know it today did not formally exist. The art of medicine for thousands of years was focused on botanicals and the use of herbs which were distributed from local apothecaries. Some known plants were mass produced but the true beginning of the age of modern drug discovery can be said to start with the isolation of Morphine from Opium by a German apothecary assistant. By the end of the 1800’s, rudimentary organic synthesis was being performed allowing elementary changes in drug molecular structure, the National Institute of [...]

On the 7th of October, a lunch was prepared by the pharmacy and medical analysis department aimed to welcome the new staffs who joined Tishk International university this year.