Pharmaceutical technology is a collective term for technologies to develop candidate compounds that have either been discovered or created into commercial pharmaceutical products. These products are made by transforming chemical compounds with useful effects on the human body into high-quality dosage forms that can appropriately exhibit effects against disease. Pharmaceutical technologies are divided into the following three functions.

• Process technology for researching synthetic methods to be used to manufacture candidate compounds efficiently and consistently in large amounts and with high quality

• Formulation technology for investigating dosage forms, formulations, and packages based on absorption stability, and usability in consideration of the characteristics of candidate compounds, and then selecting and preparing the optimal administration form

• Analytical and quality evaluation technology for establishing a variety of analytical and quality evaluation systems to properly and appropriately assure the quality of the pharmaceutical products