PHARMACEUTÄ°CAL CHEMÄ°STRY
Third Cycle Programmes
(Doctorate Degree/Doctor of Fine Arts)

D.1. General Information about Program

Pharmaceutical chemistry is a multifaceted scientific dicipline that is dedicated to the improvement of human health through research leading to new concepts for the design and development of safe and effective therapeutic, diagnostic and environmental agents involving aspects of biological and pharmaceutical sciences. As defined, it is concerned with the design, preparation and identification of biologically active compounds, the study of their metabolism, the interpretation of their mode of action at the molecular level and the construction of structure activity relationships.

Our outstanding department has the best to offer in research opportunities and graduate education, with fourteen faculty, and twelve graduate students and post-doctoral research associates. Research in this department is inspired by the development of molecular approaches for design and synthesis of bio-active molecules for study and modulation of disease related processes on a molecular level. Our faculty are actively engaged in research for the discovery and development of new drugs and are exploiting new biological targets for the treatment of CNS and cardiovascular disorders, and infectious diseases. We blend conventional disciplines to allow for specialized research to be conducted in drug design, synthesis, analysis, and biological evaluation.

The goal of graduate program training in Pharmaceutical Chemistry is to prepare highly trained, versatile individuals for a career in the pharmaceutical sciences and we are proud of our record of outstanding graduate students who now enjoy fruitful careers in academia, the pharmaceutical industries as well as with government and other regulatory agencies.

D.2 Qualification Awarded

Doctorate

D.3. Level of Qualification

QF-EHEA: 3
EQF-LLL: 8

D.4. Provisions for Registration

Having graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy and graduated from the Pharmaceutical Chemistry master's program with thesis. Those who have graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy and have not completed a Master's degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry are required to complete the Scientific Preparation Program determined by the Academic Board of the Department.

The satisfaction of the application rules of Institute of Health Sciences for postgraduate education at Hacettepe University (http://www.saglikbilimleri.hacettepe.edu.tr) must be. The same rules of application are applicable to international students.

To have ALES (SAY / EA) score type and ALES and Foreign Language base score determined by the Health Sciences Institute Board and approved by the Hacettepe University Senate http://www.saglikbilimleri.hacettepe.edu.tr/en/menu/ales_foreign_language_scores-252

D.5. Qualification Requirements and Regulations

In order to graduate from the doctorate program of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, accepted student should have at least 21 credits, or the student should finish the requirement of 120 credits of lecture and 120 credits of thesis study according to European Credit Transfer System. The student is eligible to take the proficiency exam of doctorate if successful completion.

The student, who is successful in proficiency exam and has an approval to his/her thesis proposal, prepares his/her doctorate dissertation thesis under the supervision of thesis committee. The student should write the results as determined by the thesis writing rules of the Institute; and should present and defend it in front of the thesis jury. The rules of postgraduate education of Hacettepe University are valid at every steps of the program.http://www.saglikbilimleri.hacettepe.edu.tr/tr/menu/kanun_ve_yonetmelikler-219???????

D.6. Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning

The appropriate rules of postgraduate education and exam of Hacettepe University (http://www.saglikbilimleri.hacettepe.edu.tr) are applied (Please see Government newspaper numbered 28476 at November 23rd,2012)

D.7. Goals and Objectives

The aim of the doctorate program in Pharmaceutical Chemistry is to graduate Philosophy Doctors who; have certain knowledge and skills in pharmaceutical chemistry, reached the certain level at a specific research subject of literature as well as the certain level of skills in the same subject at international level, have teaching abilities to be able pass their knowledge and skills to their trainee scientists, are capable of to plan and conduct and present an independent scientific study for the sake of science and humanity, can produce a new knowledge, have the ethic and social values of a universal science people. Doctorate program contains lectures, proficiency exam, thesis proposal, thesis study and exam of dissertation thesis. The duration of education is 8 half semesters (4 years). First four half years are lecture section and then, next four half years are thesis section.

D.12. Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

The graduates of Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry can be in the academic team in Pharmaceutical Chemistry departments of universities. They can continue to their research activities or, can work in research departments of national and international universities, Ministry of Health, regulatory agencies and pharmaceutical industries.

D.13. Access to Further Studies

D.14. Profile of the Programme

The aim of the doctorate program in Pharmaceutical Chemistry is to graduate Philosophy Doctors who; have certain knowledge and skills in pharmaceutical chemistry, reached the certain level at a specific research subject of literature as well as the certain level of skills in the same subject at international level, have teaching abilities to be able pass their knowledge and skills to their trainee scientists, are capable of to plan and conduct and present an independent scientific study for the sake of science and humanity, can produce a new knowledge, have the etic and social values of a universal science people. Doctorate program contains lectures, proficiency exam, thesis proposal, thesis study and exam of dissertation thesis. The duration of education is 8 half semesters (4 years). First four half years are lecture section and then, next four half years are thesis section.

D.15. Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

The assessment and grading methods for each lecture are defined by lecture teaching plan information package that is prepared by faculty members related to those lectures.  The appropriate rules of postgraduate education and exam of Hacettepe University are applied for exams and passing grades of lectures http://www.saglikbilimleri.hacettepe.edu.tr/tr/menu/kanun_ve_yonetmelikler-219???????

D.16. Graduation Requirements

In order to graduate of a student who met all the requirements of Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, related items of Hacettepe University postgraduate regulation regarding education and exam should also be gathered (http://www.saglikbilimleri.hacettepe.edu.tr)

D.17. Education Type

1. Full Time Education

D.18. Programme Director

Prof. Dr. Nesrin GÖKHAN KELEKÇİ

Head of the Department

E-mail: onesrin@hacettepe.edu.tr

Tel: +90312 305 1872 / 113

Fax: +90312 305 1872 / 120; +90312 311 47 77

Address: Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Eczacılık Fakültesi, Farmasötik Kimya Ab.D. 06100, Sıhhiye, Ankara

Web Address: http://www.saglikbilimleri.hacettepe.edu.tr/anabilim_dallari.html