About this course: The University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Discovery course brings you lectures from both faculty and industry experts. With this course, recorded on campus at UCSD, we seek to share our access to top people in the field who bring an unprecedented range of expertise on drug discovery. In this course you will learn the drug discovery process up to the filing of an Initial New Drug Application or IND. Each week you will learn the steps that a pharmaceutical or biotech company goes through to discover a new therapeutic drug. In this course you will be able to: * Understand the pharmaceutical and biotechnology market a changing landscape * Learn the major aspects of the drug discovery process, starting with target selection, to compound screening to designing lead candidates. * Recognize current modern drug discovery based on the lock-and-key theory, which attempts to use one single compound to hit one target to combat the related disease. * Increase understanding of the various drug discovery tools and methods that are used for finding, identifying and designing a new drug. * Define and understand the regulatory responsibilities for drug discovery to file an Investigational New Drug Application (IND). This course is intended as part 1 of a series: Drug Discovery, Drug Development (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-development) and Drug Commercialization (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-commercialization). We would highly recommend that you take the courses in order since it will give you a better understanding on how a drug is discovered in the lab before being tested in clinical trials and then launched in the market place.
Who is this class for: This class is for professionals and students interested in better understanding the process of drug discovery in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry as well as anyone who wants to learn how new drugs are discovered.
Taught by: Williams S. Ettouati, Pharm.D., Director, Industrial Relations & Development; Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor, N.S.
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Taught by: Joseph D. Ma, Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | 3-4 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Welcome!
- Discussion Prompt: Get to know your fellow Courserians!
- Video: Pharma and Biotechnology Landscape
- Video: Key Issues for Pharma
- Video: Global Outlook: What will the Future Look Like?
- Discussion Prompt: Mega-mergers: What are their implications?
- Video: Creating a Sustainable Business
- Reading: Meet the Instructors
- Video: Patient-Centric Drug Discovery and Commercialization
- Video: A New Approach to R&D
- Video: Innovation and Its Role in Developing Better Drugs
- Discussion Prompt: Pharma and Biotech Changes
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Reading: A new Master Degree in Science in Drug Development & Product Management at UCSD
- Video: Drug Discovery: Proteomics, Genomics I
- Video: Drug Discovery: Proteomics, Genomics II
- Video: Drug Discovery: Proteomics, Genomics III
- Video: Drug Discovery: Proteomics, Genomics IV
- Video: Drug Discovery: Proteomics, Genomics V
- Discussion Prompt: What's the most interesting thing discussed this module?
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Video: Compound Selection & Preclinical Studies I
- Video: Compound Selection & Preclinical Studies II
- Video: Compound Selection & Preclinical Studies III
- Discussion Prompt: Efforts in Drug Discovery: Differences between first-in-class and best-in-class
- Video: Compound Selection & Preclinical Studies IV
- Video: Compound Selection & Preclinical Studies V
- Video: Compound Selection & Preclinical Studies VI
- Discussion Prompt: Develop your own first-in-class drug
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Video: Challenges in Fragment Based Drug Discovery for Protein Kinases I
- Video: Challenges in Fragment Based Drug Discovery for Protein Kinases II
- Video: Challenges in Fragment Based Drug Discovery for Protein Kinases III
- Discussion Prompt: Collaboration among scientific disciplines - how important is it?
- Video: Challenges in Fragment Based Drug Discovery for Protein Kinases IV
- Video: Challenges in Fragment Based Drug Discovery for Protein Kinases V
- Discussion Prompt: Clinical Trials Interruptions: What can we learn?
- Reading: Optional: Examples using structure based approaches
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Video: Key Concepts in Drug Delivery I
- Video: Key Concepts in Drug Delivery II
- Video: Key Concepts in Drug Delivery III
- Video: Key Concepts in Drug Delivery IV
- Video: Key Concepts in Drug Delivery V
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Discussion Prompt: How did this course help you?
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It was such an informative course, maybe varies between levels of advancement, but definetly has information that if you get deeper with grows more and more curiosity in you. All the instructors are smart but my favorite was prof Ettouate, I watched all his videos 3 times and every time I learn something new. Highly recommended!
The content of the course is very excellen.
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