| Course Name |
Introduction
to Biopharma Curriculum: Basics |
| Audience |
Industry professionals, including lab
technicians, management, engineers, IT professionals, HR and administration,
business development, sales, finance, legal, and intellectual property. |
| Course Requirements |
Physicians, allied healthcare providers,
and others with the interest in management of patients with Osteoarthritis.
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| Pre-requisites |
Industry professionals, including lab
technicians, management, engineers, IT professionals, HR and administration,
business development, sales, finance, legal, and intellectual property. |
| Course Duration |
1 hour. |
| Course Objectives |
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
discovering a drug and taking it from "bench to bedside."'
After completing this course you will be able to:
- 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.
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| Course Outline |
- Introduction
- Course Information
- Interface Tour
- Course Overview
- What is a Drug?
- Drug Discovery
- Objectives
- The Drug Pipeline
- Challenge: Filling the Pipeline
- Drug Discovery - Past
- Innovation Deficit
- Drug Discovery - Present
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- Progress Check
- Key Technologies
- Objectives
- Genomics
- Proteomics
- Bioinformatics
- Progress Check
- Conclusion
- Summary
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