Name: Drug Discovery
Brand: University of California San Diego
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Rating: 4.6 (783 reviews)

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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

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 !

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 Nektaria A

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Nov 25, 2022

very good course but needs an update

By Francesca C (

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Dec 30, 2021

really outdated but very informative

By Alexander V

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Feb 4, 2024

Content is already 10 years old.

By Juulke S

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Aug 16, 2024

Information is a bit outdated

By Kiran P W

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Jun 7, 2020

Good but too much time taken

By Jessica S

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Oct 21, 2022

needs to be updated

By H.K.C. S G

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Sep 3, 2020

Very helpful course.

By Arina A

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Sep 7, 2018

Difficult course

By dr d

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Sep 30, 2018

old,no updates

By Mariflor V

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Oct 30, 2020

Older lecture

By Miia A

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Apr 20, 2022

Fine course

By Abla m i

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Aug 9, 2022

thank you

By Surisetty H k

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Jun 9, 2020

Nce course

By Dr. J B

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Nov 25, 2025

Average

By bhavana d

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May 27, 2022

good

By DR. A G

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Sep 5, 2020

GOOG

By Robert W

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Dec 22, 2020

The variance in complexity/accessibility made this course at times extremely difficult to follow and enjoy. Week 1 and Week 3 were good, particularly Week 3 where the lecturer took time to explain the basic concepts and terminology. Week 2 is just a nightmare for anyone without a fairly developed scientific knowledge.

By Tetsuo U

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Feb 10, 2020

Some aspects in this course are still valid and relevant today, but some of the contents are now more of historical interest. Good to renew the course including the critical assessment of the contents presented in the course with respect to how they have fared out.

By Mathias V

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Nov 3, 2016

Some lectures were quite interesting but the generel course level is very low. Furthermore, I think several topics is missing which I believed the course would cover like GLP Tox, CMC, IND filing and the topics which are covered should be covered in more depth.