Dr. Sarah Vugigi, PhD.

Teaching& Curriculum

Connecting pharmaceutical science with industrial practice

I teach Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy at Kabarak University. More than 25 years of manufacturing, quality, and regulatory experience comes into the classroom with me, so students meet the profession before they enter it.

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Pharmaceutics

Drug development, dosage-form formulation and design, and performance evaluation.

Industrial pharmacy

Scale-up, manufacturing, quality assurance, GMP, and pharmaceutical utility systems.

Curriculum development

Programmes designed around competencies the sector needs.

Research supervision

Guiding research that generates solutions for challenges in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

What I teach

Scientific principles, connected at every step to the standards and decisions graduates will meet in pharmaceutical practice.

Pharmaceutics

The science behind a medicine that works

Dosage-form design, formulation principles, excipient function, stability, and product performance. Starting with the end in mind, students learn why a formulation behaves as it does and how its properties change on the production line.

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Education that prepares graduates for the profession

Effective education prepares graduates to apply knowledge, solve real problems, and contribute meaningfully to their profession from the start.

Relevant

Every principle is tied to a decision a graduate will be asked to make in professional practice.

Practical

Learning is built on manufacturing case studies, quality systems, and regulatory expectations.

Impactful

The aim is to produce graduates who can solve problems and contribute meaningfully from their first year in the workplace.

Kabarak University

Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics

I joined Kabarak University in March 2021, in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutics. Alongside teaching, my work covers research, curriculum development, academic leadership, and building collaboration between the university and the pharmaceutical industry.

Teaching shaped by practice

Examples from manufacturing, quality systems, and regulatory work help students connect theory to operational responsibility.

Dr. Sarah Vugigi with Kabarak University colleagues in a pharmaceutical laboratory

Universities and industry work better when they are close

Graduates enter a sector that needs formulation scientists, production leaders, quality professionals, and regulatory specialists. Teaching should show them that landscape clearly, and give them a reason to enter it.

Curriculum development

Master of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

A specialist master’s programme developed at Kabarak School of Pharmacy to strengthen pharmaceutical manufacturing technical expertise in Africa, with its first cohort admitted in May 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutics, alongside research supervision, curriculum development, and academic leadership.

Let’s advance pharmaceutical education together

I welcome curriculum collaboration, guest teaching, academic partnerships, and conversations about practice-based pharmaceutical education.

Contact me