On September 23, 2020, the head of the Department of Industrial Technology of Drugs, Professor OA Ruban, made a report “Prospective directions of scientific research o of the Department of Industrial Technology of Drugs of NUPh” at the VIII scientific-practical conference with international participation “SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND OPTIMIZATION OF DRUG DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES”, which was held online on the basis of IYa Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University.