6^th World Pharmacists & Clinical Pharmacy Annual Congress

Pharma Research & Development

Pharmacists provide an invaluable interface in this process by liaising with scientists and clinicians across the development arena. Within clinical research, pharmacists can help assess the safety and efficacy of new medicines. Skills learnt during pharmacy training allow them to contribute to the entire clinical trial process from planning the trial, developing the prototype formulations for administration first in animals and later for trials in humans, the production, packaging, labelling and supply of the medicine to clinical researchers, through to the monitoring and reporting of complex studies. In 2000, expenditure on research and development in United States, Europe and Japan countries came to a total of some 45 billion U.S. dollars.