The Drug Development Process from Concept to Market is a course that covers topics such as:
- The roles of different pharmaceutical professionals
- The size of the global pharmaceutical market and the key therapeutic areas being addressed by innovator companies
- How new drugs are developed against targets in the human body
- Typical costs and timelines associated with drug development
- Factors affecting oral bioavailability
- Reasons why drugs fail during development
- The potential influence of polymorphism, salt form and isomerism on efficacy and safety
- How drugs are screened for toxicity
- How the safety and efficacy of drug products are ensured during QC release testing
- How formulation can affect drug performance
- The structure of regulatory submissions
- The information obtained at each stage of clinical research
- How the manufacture and distribution of marketed drug products are controlled
- How post-approval changes to drug products are managed
The Drug Development Process from Concept to Market brings together:
- Recently-appointed scientific staff with no previous experience of the pharmaceutical industry
- Non-scientific employees of pharmaceutical companies who would like to understand how drugs are developed (e.g. IT, human resources, engineering and administrative staff)
- Any pharmaceutical employee wishing to improve their knowledge of drug development
