Pharmaceutical Development

Catalog description

The course will follow the process of pharmaceutical drug discovery from selection of targets to discovery of a product candidate, and the characterization of that drug necessary for initiation of clinical trials. You will learn the key steps that define how potential drugs are identified, optimized, and characterized in the preclinical setting and gain understanding of the key management challenges in the drug discovery process. The course will provide the terminology, timelines and practical examples for successfully understanding the challenges in progressing an idea for a drug from the earliest discovery stages through to clinical trials. Case studies from industry will be presented detailing companies and products that utilize state-of- the-art drug discovery technologies. This is a science course that freely intersperses business and regulatory issues into the lectures and assignments.