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About the 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....

Top reviews

MK

Nov 8, 2020

As a pharmaceutical sciences student, this course was extremely helpful and interesting, the materials covered answered many of the questions I had in regards to the topic !

AD

May 26, 2020

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.

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By Sterling J

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Dec 7, 2020

Great and concise introduction to drug discovery.

By Ahmed S A

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Nov 6, 2020

very good and will help me a lot after graduation

By Anuradha K

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May 24, 2020

Key concepts of drug discovery was the BEST.

By Mohamed M M A

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Sep 10, 2017

The content of the course is very excellen.

By Prasanna K V

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Apr 10, 2020

Very brief, but helpful for fresh readers.

By Dr. H H

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May 16, 2018

Sequence of lessons could be more logical

By Rosilin S A f

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Oct 30, 2024

IT IS VERY USEFUL TO GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE

By Vanja T

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Feb 15, 2018

Update needed, new data and materials.

By SHARON R

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Aug 13, 2023

week 3 is very useful for the studies

By Durgaprasad R

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Sep 18, 2020

AN ADVANCED LEVEL IS HIGHLY REQUIRED.

By Shashikant L

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Jul 18, 2020

best course like the way of teaching

By Juan A V

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Dec 7, 2025

Buen curso, solo falta actualizarlo

By Anam J

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Sep 7, 2018

very difficult course for beginners

By jovana b

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Jul 21, 2025

Very nicely organized introduction

By Sanika G

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Aug 27, 2021

It was very good and informative .

By Madeswaran

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Jul 1, 2020

Really the course was sounds good.

By 19BBT050-SHANMUGAPRIYA G B B

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Sep 11, 2020

Its informative and useful to me

By Ashish

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Jul 3, 2020

seems interesting and productive

By Mayank S

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Jun 23, 2020

Good course. Really informative.

By Mats J P A

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Apr 13, 2020

Good nice course, the lectures

By Kaoutar E B

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Mar 7, 2025

j'ai vraiment aimer ce cours

By Giorgio R

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Jun 8, 2023

Great Intro to Drug dicovery

By Nidhi P

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Jun 12, 2020

Too much informative for me

By Kartikay M

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Aug 21, 2023

Best platform for learning

By Radu S

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Feb 25, 2021

Knowledge packed sprints.