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.
This course is part of the Drug Development Product Management Specialization
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- Drug Development
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- Pharmacokinetics
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome!
Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Industry Landscape
Drug Discovery: Proteomics, Genomics
Compound Selection & Preclinical Studies
Challenges in Fragment Based Drug Discovery for Protein Kinases
Key Concepts in Drug Delivery
Reviews
- 5 stars70.92%
- 4 stars24.31%
- 3 stars3.68%
- 2 stars0.56%
- 1 star0.50%
TOP REVIEWS FROM DRUG DISCOVERY
It was knowledgeable and the course had covered the main aspects on the topic drug discovery, it was really helpful for me to gain more information on pharma. I am really thankful
This course will help me in getting an idea about research for new drugs and site targets ,as well as which route is effective for administration of what type of drugs.
It is really good and informative course and i have learnt about how drug is discovered how we could enhance its production how drug could reproduce how much drug production is increased.
Excelente curso para entender conceptos en la investigación y desarrollo de fármacos, así como cuestiones a tomar en cuenta al diseñar o evaluar fármacos para uso humano.
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