How does a promising molecule become a safe and effective medicine? In the Master of Science (MSc) in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering, you learn how drugs are designed, developed, tested, and brought to market. By combining biology, chemistry, and engineering, the programme prepares you to work across the pharmaceutical development pipeline in the pharma and biotech industries.
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The development of new medicines relies on knowledge from several scientific fields. In this programme, you explore how drugs move through the entire development process—from early discovery to finished pharmaceutical products.
You gain knowledge of how promising molecules are identified, developed, and tested, how formulations are designed, how production processes are scaled up, and how medicines meet regulatory requirements before reaching patients.
You will work with both small-molecule drugs and advanced therapeutics such as peptides, proteins, vaccines, and antibodies. During the programme, you will learn about central areas of pharmaceutical development—for example, drug delivery, immunology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and pharmaceutical process development.
The programme is highly interdisciplinary and combines perspectives from biology, chemistry, and engineering. You will often work in groups with fellow students from different scientific backgrounds, reflecting the collaborative nature of modern pharmaceutical research and development. Through courses, projects, and laboratory work, you develop the competences to collaborate across disciplines and understand how different specialists contribute to the development of safe and effective medicines.
This broad perspective prepares you to contribute to innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries and to help translate scientific discoveries into treatments that benefit patients.
Specializations
You will not find any pre-defined sub-programmes or specializations on the MSc in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering at DTU. You can choose from a range of technological specialization courses and combine them with elective courses to create the exact Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering profile to match your interests and background. However, there are still a number of core mandatory courses that clearly define the Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering candidate. See the full course descriptions under 'Curriculum' .