The majority of courses are offered every semester; Introductory events by the student council as well as by professors and academic staff; Intensive seminars in the foundational semesters, excursions (botany, industry); No courses during semester breaks; Preparation for studies & PY; Networking of content by the individual departments; High level of commitment on the part of the lecturers; personal support.; Pharmacy campus; Research focus during the main study stage; Closely connected theoretical & practical studies.

Intensive supervision for semesters and work placements abroad; Module "English for Natural Sciences" as part of the Master's degree course Drug Research and Technology; Preparation for an international academic career; DAAD and Erasmus stays abroad (incoming and outgoing students); Support for individual mobility abroad (summer internships, semesters abroad, practical year); English-language colloquia for junior scientists.

Spacious facility with excellent equipment for use with modern analysis methods; Medicinal plant garden; Greenhouses; Wide range of large-scale scientific equipment in a central location on the Pharma campus; Online access to Rote Liste, the pharmacopoeia, German Drug Codex (DAC), New German Prescription Formulary (NRF), SpringerLink, etc.

EU, DFG, BMBF and BMWK projects, industrial cooperation, KLS, KiNSIS, DZHK, BlueHealthTech. Small & high molecular weight natural products, glycobiology/chemistry, QC (marine) biogenic drugs, natural product analytics, chemophenetics, in silico drug design & synthesis, phenotypic screens, stem cells, molecular tools, target identification & evaluation, transmembrane transport, metabolism, prodrugs. Drug therapy safety, incompatibilities, alternative matrices (breathomes), biomarker research. Powder for inhalation, nasalia, vaccine development, nanoparticles for immunology.

Special focus on programmes to facilitate the start of studies, e.g. "Open Chemistry Room" and "ChemCoach"; New focus on "Sustainable Pharmacy" with international conferences, elective projects and lectures at the institute; Drug substance development on the basis of renewable resources; Pharmacy campus with medicinal plant garden and greenhouses; Pharmacobotanical excursions to the Alps and southern Europe; Research into alternatives to animal testing (3R strategy, stem cell technologies)