Introduction to Biopharma - Basics Course

Course Description:

This course introduces the students to the biopharmaceutical industry by focusing on the drug discovery and development process. The course begins by explaining what a drug is and proceeds through the steps required to discover a drug and take it from "bench to bedside."

Course Objectives:

> List common categories of the drugs

> Describe all of the phases of drug development "pipeline"

> Explain why currently used drugs only target a small set of proteins

> Explain how drug discovery has evolved over time

> List the key technologies that are used in modern drug discovery

> List the major differences between the "old way" and the "new way" of discovering novel drugs.

Course Outline:

Introduction

1. Course Information

2. Interface Tour

3. Course Overview

4. What is a Drug?

Drug Discovery

5. Objectives

6. The Drug Pipeline

7. Challenge: Filling the Pipeline

8. Drug Discovery - Past

9. Innovation Deficit

10. Drug Discovery - Present

11. Progress Check

Key Technologies

12. Objectives

13. Genomics

14. Proteomics

15. Bioinformatics

16. Progress Check

Conclusion

17. Summary

Each Online Training Course or Professional Designation Program listed below comes complete with;

> 24 hour access to the course for 90 days,

> a printable PDF file including the notes to the course,

> a test used to measure your understanding of the material provided in the course, and

> a Certificate of Completion once you have passed a course, or;

> a Certificate of Professional Designation if you are enrolling in a Professional Designation program
Course Unit 1 of 3 Units
Price: $105.00 / GBP54.60