THE ROLE OF THE DISCIPLINE "BIOTECHNOLOGY" IN THE TRAINING OF PERSONNEL IN THE SPECIALTY "PHARMACY" AT THE KIROV MILITARY MEDICAL AKADEMY
Today biotechnology is one of the most relevant and rapidly developing branches of industry and science. This is due to the increasing number of oncological, autoimmune and viral diseases that require specific treatment approaches. The growing interest in medicines created by biotechnological methods is also due to the fact that they gradually replace traditional production technologies of medicines, reducing the time interval from the R&D stage to the output of the finished product to the market. At present modern world-class biopharmaceutical companies produce a wide range of medicines from recombinant therapeutic proteins, vaccines, blood plasma proteins to therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. This is the reason for the special relevance and expediency of studying the discipline "Biotechnology" in the training of personnel in the specialty 33.05.01 "Pharmacy". High qualification of specialists and knowledge of the main issues of biotechnology allows to competently carry out their professional activities related in one way or another to working with medicines obtained by biotechnological methods at all stages of their life cycle. The gained knowledge about the main biotechnological methods of medicine production and the study of concrete technology for the production of preparations of amino acids, vitamins, antibiotics, vaccines and a number of others, allows to form a clear idea of biotechnology as a production and scientific sphere.