The interdisciplinary PhD program aims to provide the skills, knowledge, professional competences and experience of researchers in the pharmaceutical field. Candidates must be capable of addressing problems that require interdisciplinary skills. On completion of the PhD degree, graduates will be equipped to work on creative tasks in a new scientific or technological environment and form part of interdisciplinary research groups.

The main aim of acquiring a PhD degree in pharmacy is to understand and test novel ideas, where the candidate could utilize this knowledge to design and develop new drugs and delivery systems that could significantly modify different diseases, with special concern to the socioeconomic significance.