Core research area Engineering for Health
Research associate Christian Kölln inspects a cell culture plate with 12 inserts under the sterile workbench.
Diese breite Palette an Arzneiformen zeigt die Vielfältigkeit, mit der Arzneimittel verabreicht werden können. Am Institut für Pharmazeutische Technologie werden viele dieser Arzneiformen aktiv weiterentwickelt.

Researching for Health

Engineering for Health

Our goal is understanding health focused on research of infection mechanisms and maintaining health by providing innovative customized drugs as well as developing new processes and methods in drug production and testing. We work on scientific approaches to make biological processes predictable and research the cost-effective production of patient-specific drugs.

Our research brings together scientists from biology, chemistry, pharmaceutics, physics, mathematics, computer science, process and production engineering, and microtechnology. This enables us to map the entire value chain - from research into the molecular basis of infections and possible drug targets, to drug development, formulation, production and packaging. This interdisciplinary know-how is unique in the German research landscape.

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Talks and Events

08 October 2025 - 10 October 2025

SPhERe 2025: 6th Symposium on Pharmaceutical Engineering Research

The “6th Symposium on Pharmaceutical Engineering Research” SPhERe 2025 takes place from 8 October to 10 October 2025 at the Center of Pharmaceutical…

04 November 2025 - 05 November 2025

Scoping Workshop: Building a Collaborative Ecosystem for Metabolism Research and Innovation

The workshop takes place from November 4 to 5 and is funded by "Ecoversity – Spaces for Collaboration".

20 November 2025 - 21 November 2025

Symposium: Control Engineering for Health

The symposium explores how control engineering, AI, and biomedical approaches can improve precision and adaptive medicine.

News and Press

15.09.2025

How Itaconate Travels Through Space and Time to Shape Our Immune Response

Itaconate is a small molecule produced in our bodies to ...

12.09.2025

PVZ opens parent-child office

In August, the Centre for Pharmaceutical Process Engineering (PVZ) at ...

18.07.2025

More tailored medicine

There is an ever-increasing amount of health data available. However, ...

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Dr. Anita Remus
Managing Director