"The MDGFI has allowed me to fill in my training in the manufacture of biotech drugs increasingly present in today's treatments."

Antía López is doing a paid internship at the Master's Degree at 3P Biopharmaceuticals. After graduating in pharmacy from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Antía López decided to study the Master's Degree in design Galenic and Manufacturing in the Pharmaceutical Industry (MDGFI) from the University of Navarra.  "This Master's Degree It has allowed me to develop my theoretical and practical knowledge of the four Departments that are more closely linked to pharmaceutical technology: design and development galenic, production, quality control and quality assurance". In relation to the dimension internship of the Master's Degree, he adds that, "all the knowledge I acquired I was able to put into practice. internship, first on a pilot scale in the university and also on a large scale in a pharmaceutical industry."

The final step and the materialization of this training internship is due to the more than 25 collaborating companies in the pharmaceutical sector that offer paid internships and offer student the opportunity to develop professionally in the work environment from the earliest stages of their training. "When it came to choosing an internship, I opted for Quality Assurance at 3P Biopharmaceuticals. From the very first moment it was clear to me that I wanted to develop my degree program in this department given the wide knowledge that is acquired, not only from rules and regulations, but also from the production process". 

These internships, he assures, "train me in the different aspects of Quality Assurance, both by areas (operations, material systems and suppliers, validations and audits) and globally, and allow me to fill in my training pharmaceutical and galenic in the manufacture of biotechnological drugs, increasingly present in current treatments".

An eminently practical Master's Degree

The School of Pharmacy and Nutrition of the University of Navarra offers among its wide variety of degrees of postgraduate program the possibility of taking the Master's Degree in design Galenic and Manufacturing in the Pharmaceutical Industry. It is a 16-month on-site Master's Degree that has as differential characteristics the contact with the professional world from the beginning as well as the promotion of the employment rate of its students.

In addition, it stands out for the use of a methodology of work that combines in a balanced way the theoretical knowledge with the exercise of practices at pilot scale in the University and 9 months of paid internships in the pharmaceutical industry.