bio health and powder engineering
Mines Albi offers an original training programme directed towards the pharmaceutical and agri-food industries, supported by high-level research on the generation and forming of powders.
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IMT Mines Albi’s qualified engineers are capable of managing and optimizing production lines, from the transformation of raw materials (crushing, freeze-drying...) to the final forming (granules, soluble powders...).
Undergraduate education
In their 3rd year of study, undergraduate engineers can choose the Bio Health Engineering course with the choice of 2 options:
Agri-bio-health for the food sector Pharma-bio-health for the pharmaceuticals and cosmetics sector
Apprenticeship and continuous training
Specialization in the pharmaceutical and health services sectors is offered in the apprenticeship engineering curriculum.
Student pharmacists
A pharmacist-engineer double diploma, over 2 years, is offered to students after their 5th year of pharmacy studies.
Research masters
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The researchers of the RAPSODEE centre are recognized for their expertise in powders and granular materials.
They optimize production processes (grinding, crystallization, atomization...) and forming processes (for example, compression of a pharmaceutical active ingredient into a tablet) of powder products. They work to improve their usage properties (effervescence, dissolution, dispersion, bio-availability).
- Awards and scientific distinctions obtained by the researchers of the RAPSODEE centre
- Publications on the scientific production of the RAPSODEE centre.
- The list of symposia and conferences organised by RAPSODEE in Albi.
- Numerous congresses are organised or jointly organised by the RAPSODEE laboratory
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The perfecting of these new production processes for their use in industry is a priority objective for IMT Mines Albi. To this end, the School participates in the Cancer-Bio-Health competitiveness cluster, which is involved in the health and biotechnology sector.
A technology platform in the service of the pharmaceutical industry
The GALA platform is an exceptional research facility. Set up on the Castres-Mazamet Technopole, it is organised around two axes:
- a “Processes” component, to develop innovative galenic forms
- a “Characterization” component, provided with equipment that is unique in the region
Some examples of economic valorization
- Between the gaseous and liquid states, supercritical CO2 is used as an alternative, non-toxic and non-inflammable solvent, with numerous applications: extraction of molecules from vegetable matter, synthesis of molecules of pharmaceutical interest, etc.
- Certain operations, developed in partnership with the Pierre Fabre group, were patented between 2001 and 2005.
Examples of industrial internship tasks
- Property tests for an innovative galenic form
- Development of a tablet for children
Seed companies
- designs and manufactures a complete range of innovative solutions adapted to mixing the largest possible variety of raw materials.