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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Drug Discovery by University of California San Diego

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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

HG

Oct 15, 2018

Very well done and informative. I truly appreciate the Drug process in entirety being broken down into sections that are easy to comprehend. It is obvious the speakers were chosen for their knowledge.

JS

Apr 16, 2021

This course helps to understand the basic fundamental & principles of drug discovery clearly. I am very thankful to the Coursera and University of California San Diego for providing this course to me.

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By Aditya v

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Sep 5, 2020

Please mention that a basic understanding of chemistry is absolutely essential as a prerequisite to taking this course.

By Alejo V

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Nov 22, 2023

It could be longer and get more about each topic but its content is a good broad view on the whole pre clinical trial

By Luciano L

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Oct 19, 2023

Materials are now 10 years old. Still, content is good for people outside the industry that want to get a good intro.

By Indu S

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Dec 29, 2020

Overall it's a nice course but it needs to get latest data on what is going on in pharmaceutical and drug discovery.

By Adrija C

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Oct 5, 2020

Amore detailed explanation of contents of week 1 and 2 would have been good. The content of week 3 was very useful.

By Paulina C H

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Jul 9, 2021

The content is very interesting and helpful. In the first week they show some statistics that are not up to date.

By Joshua D

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Dec 26, 2020

I found this course informative. Might be somewhat challenging to follow without some health sciences background.

By NagaSandhya G

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May 20, 2017

Ver y useful course to learn the basics of drug discovery. Needs to be updated, most of the slides were outdated.

By Rowan W

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Apr 9, 2023

The material is a bit dated but the concepts and resources are very valid for working in today's research space.

By Justyna S A

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Sep 9, 2020

It would be nice to see some more updates as we are in 2020, but overall very interesting course! Thank you :)

By Andrew O

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Jun 25, 2018

Working on marketing materials for a tech company. This helped give the the foundation and resources I need!

By Wan J L

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Jul 27, 2021

The lessons are mostly case-based. And you need certain level of knowledge to life sciences to understand.

By Nikhil S

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Jun 11, 2020

It's an amazing course, I really enjoyed its informational and knowledgable content.....thankyou for that.

By Pranay S J

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Aug 4, 2022

wonderful course.as i have started it with very less knowledge but course help me a lot to get knowledge.

By Jem L

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Mar 30, 2023

A good overview, but some lectures are 10 years old! Would be great to have more up to date lectures.

By rohit K

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Nov 5, 2022

es main stages: Early Drug Discovery, Pre-Clinical Phase, Clinical Phases, and Regulatory Approval.

By Grivel J

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Jun 5, 2019

The material could be updated with the last technology like Gene therapy and radioligand products

By Daneshka L C

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May 7, 2020

Para comiento general, fue muy bueno aprender sobre generalidades del descubrimiento de drogas

By C V

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Sep 16, 2022

Great overview. The variance in technicality for the Week 3 material was a bit off though.

By Fei X

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Apr 25, 2017

Learned the trend of latest Pharma industry and review the basic concepts in drug discovery

By Camilla F

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May 15, 2022

It was an interesting course.

It should be more homogeneous in the slides and in the talks.

By Abhishikta C

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Jul 10, 2021

It was no doubt too good and informative but it was based on too old informations also...

By Alaa M A

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Jul 29, 2020

the course was very helpful and it was a great experience to learn about drug discovery

By Christina L

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Sep 16, 2022

Informative introdution to drug discovery. Looking forward to the next 2 modules now.

By Bhutada R R

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May 22, 2020

Very informative course ..Thanks for information on drug discovery and drug delivery