Trinity is Ireland’s leading university and is ranked 104th in the world*
Trinity delivers world class education and employers worldwide hold Trinity graduates in high esteem.
Graduates include Nobel Prize winners in literature, science and medicine; presidents and world leaders; award-winning actors and film makers; internationally renowned poets and playwrights, entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Dublin is a vibrant, multicultural, European capital and Trinity students take full advantage of everything the university and the city have to offer.
The vibrant social scene in the city and on campus ensures that students enjoy a unique university experience. Trinity's main campus of cobbled squares, historic buildings and green playing fields also includes state-of-the-art modern facilities for teaching and research and a Sports Centre with a climbing wall and swimming pool
India:: Welcome
Trinity's engagement with India can be traced back to the 18th Century, when in 1762 the university founded a chair in oriental languages.
One hundred years later the College appointed Mir Aulad Ali (1832-1898), a Muslim from Northern India more commonly known as 'The Mir', as Professor of Arabic and Hindustani, and later Persian. During the nineteenth century, Trinity, together with Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh, trained generations of young men for the Indian Civil Service. The library collections reflect these multi-faceted engagements with Asia and include rare late nineteenth-century/ early twentieth century gramophone recordings made by the Trinity scholar, George Grierson, who compiled a remarkable linguistic survey of India which described 364 languages and many more dialects.
Today, Trinity collaborates with many of the top Indian institutions, including National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (JNIAS), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Dehli, Thapar University, Ashoka University and many more. There has been successful collaboration with Universities, IIT's, High Schools and other academic institutions; the Department of Science and Technology; the Indian Council for Cultural Relations; the Indian Council for Social Sciences Research; the Indian Council for Historical Research; the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research.
Today Indian students make up the 2nd largest cohort of non-EU students attending Trinity, after the US. Our Indian Society, founded in 2011, is one of the most vibrant and rapidly growing in the University, whose Holi celebrations on the historic Front Square have become a beloved occasion for the entire student body.
Msc Pharmaceutical Sciences::
The M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences is an integrated multidisciplinary course addressing fundamental and applied aspects of drug and drug product discovery, development, production and analysis. The programme will prepare candidates for research careers in academia and industry in pharmaceutical R&D as well as will create an awareness of issues and approaches relevant to the key pharmaceutical manufacturing sector in Ireland.
The course is available for full-time study over one calendar year or part-time over two years and consists of lectures, workshops, presentations and laboratory work. Formal classes run from September to April and are normally held two days every week with the remaining time available to students for self-directed studies, writing tutor marked assignments, preparing laboratory reports and presentations. Students proceeding to a M.Sc. degree will be required to undertake a research project and present a detailed scientific report at the end of the course.
The course consists of eight basic modules: regulatory aspects and industrial pharmacy, chromatographic and other separative methods of analysis, spectroscopic methods for drug analysis, molecular pharmaceutics and advanced drug delivery, biopharmaceutical sciences, pharmaceutical and medical nanotechnology, pharmacological and related methods, biotechnology, formulation development and evaluation and professional skills in pharmaceutical sciences.
The taught modules are supported by lectures and workshops on presentation, research and other transferrable skills. The course is taught mainly by College staff, although there is a contribution from specialist visiting lecturers. The research project may be conducted either in the School of Pharmacy or at the student's place of employment but in either case supervision is exercised by a member of the School of Pharmacy academic staff.
Overall assessment of candidates is based on tutor marked assignments during the course work, written examinations, presentations and laboratory reports. Candidates must successfully complete the taught components of the course, before proceeding to the M.Sc. project. Provision is available for a supplemental examination in September each year if required. A reasonable attempt is required in all aspects of the examination process. A pass mark of 40% is normally required.
The Pharmaceutical Industry::
The Irish Pharmaceutical Industry, both in terms of manufacturing and marketing, has grown dynamically over the last 20 years. It continues to grow and, on the manufacturing side, is fundamentally export-orientated. Within both the manufacturing and marketing sides of the industry, all the major international pharmaceutical companies are represented and, moreover, the industry extends into the area of non-pharmaceutical health care, including medical devices and diagnostic products.
Pharmaceutical companies, depending on their size, typically include a multi-disciplinary team and the pharmacist may have considerable scope for his qualifications - if possible complemented with additional qualifications to his/her primary degree in the areas of sales/marketing, research and development, production quality control, administration and management.
The work of the production pharmacist involves the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and, as such, affords the pharmacist the opportunity to employ both technical skills and management expertise.
Before any batch of a medicinal product is released for sale, a number of tests are carried out on samples of the batch to ensure that the product meets the required standards. These tests are carried out by the quality control department and the head of that department, known as the "Qualified Person", is responsible for authorising the release of the product. The pharmacist, by virtue of his/her training, is in an excellent position to undertake the role of " Qualified Person".
All human medicines must be licenced by the Irish Medicines Board (I.M.B.) prior to being sold here. The role of the registration pharmacist is to prepare dossiers in a specific format for submission to the Irish Medicines Board (I.M.B.) in order to obtain a licence. The I.M.B. is also the licensing authority for veterinary medicines.
The information pharmacist provides information to doctors and pharmacists about the Company's products. He/she may also be involved in areas such as the training of the Company sales personnel and the compilation of technical booklets. Excellent opportunities exist for pharmacists in the area of sales and marketing of pharmaceuticals.
Mr. Deepak, Education Manager, Career XL Services says the average pay for a Sales Representative, Pharmaceuticals is €40,414 per year.
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