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This course holds up well and is still worth taking considering that there has been a great deal of change in the industry over the past 5+ years. The presenters in this course convey a high-level overview of the key components of drug development including screening, targeting and selection as well as PK/PD considerations and delivery options. Some of the presenters also go over very informative real world development case studies. That said, I hope they update the course sometime soon. This class is largely comprised of guest lectures giving live one-hour presentations to an audience. These presentations are broken up into smaller modules. Having more bespoke and discreet lectures probably allows for more content for a given amount of time (e.g., less redundancy and better sequencing). Also, the course is focused on small molecules. Biologics including gene therapy and editing, have become even more common in the past 5 years and merit more robust coverage. In my opinion, a course like this would start out with uniform concepts across all major drug modalities and then expand upon the specific considerations based on drug types (the Drug Discovery presenter in this class is a good example of this approach).

I am starting a new role in a large global pharma company tomorrow. This is my first role within the Pharma industry and my awareness levels of the drug discovery and development process were close to zero. I enrolled in this course to better understand this so as to quickly assimilate the context within which my new employer and role exist.

This is not my first MOOC, but I loved the short videos and the formative quizzes. The base data that the course refers to, is now significantly dated (as are some of the links that are mentioned in the course) - this should be updated if a refresh is on the cards. Given that this is a technical domain, innovation would quickly outdate the information presented in modules such as the one on drug delivery systems.

Overall, I enjoyed this course and feel that I am better equipped to get into my new role with a lot more confidence.

Thank you Prof. Ettouati and Prof. Ma!

After completion of this course of Drug discovery I believe this had so much to offer, and worthwhile. Starting from learning key aspects of the Pharmaceutical industry to the Global outlook and challenges faced in new drug discovery and its development. From learning about the'' Patient-centric '' approach to having an insight about the Omic revolution (Genome Project) where I learned about the importance of data interpretation. Few of the case studies were interesting ( Torcetrapib Drug Catastrophe, Pfizer). Learning about basic understanding of various phases of drug discovery (i.e Pre - clinical studies) and at last, I come to know about how different dosages of drug formulation get delivered in the human body. Hence, overall I can say that this course is still prevalent apart from being launched a few years back. I would recommend everyone to have a look at it !!

As a layman in pharma and medicine, it was quite helpful hearing about current issues and getting a somewhat high-level introduction to the drug discovery process. The speakers were mostly very engaging and gave clear overviews and opinions. However, in some instances I did feel that we were entering a degree of detail that lay people are not able to follow. My recommendation would be to switch the last two speakers, since the second-to-last seems to expect knowledge the final speaker provides.

pros: industry relevant content, mentors with several years of experience both in academia and industry, very interesting lectures.

cons: the course is relevant for time-frame of 2013 to 2016. So it would have been great if it catered to the time -frame after 2016.

Some concepts were not explained before by the mentors. One has to have some basic knowledge before starting the course. A suggestion would be include a terminology document along with the lecture.

This specialization brought me a lot of good approaches for Drug DIscovery, it's complete my Bachelor's degree of BIOCHEMISTRY and My Master degree in Fundamental & applied Toxicology, i've deepen my insight of this amazing field (e.g: mega-megers, proteomics genomics, fragment based drug discovery, drug delivery,...etc) speaking of which contribute a lot in people welfare. Juste Elysée MALANDILA

This course is a great introduction to the technical details of the drug discovery process. The resource persons and the instructors have done a great job sharing their experience and expertise. However, the material is outdated especially with respect to the "exponential" nature of the trends in this field. I hope that the course heads would consider updating the content as soon as possible.

Good course to understand the topics and challenges pharma companies face during the drug discovery phase - now I know what people are "up to" in preclinical.

Good intro to Pharma market environment

Module "Challenges in Fragment Based Drug Discovery" was a bit too science-focused as for people with no science / medical background

Really loved last module - key concepts in drug delivery

It was enormously informative for me and I've learned so many that I didn't even expect about drug discovery. And actually that course may really affect my future decision in choosing my career. But I think it would be better if the course's material are discused in more detail.

Thank you for offering that course and accepting the financial aid request.

It was such an informative course, maybe varies between levels of advancement, but definetly has information that if you get deeper with grows more and more curiosity in you. All the instructors are smart but my favorite was prof Ettouate, I watched all his videos 3 times and every time I learn something new. Highly recommended!

A great course which gives in depth knowledge about all the stages of drug development, discovery and clinical safety processes which a drug needs to go through for it to be actually out in the market!

I would recommend this if you're inquisitive about the process and interested in the health science niche.

I learned a lot from this course and gained a good basic understanding of drug development. The lectures are from 2013. I am assuming that the basics are still similar to what the industry is doing now but it would have been nice if at least the reading materials etc were updated to reflect today's world.

Understanding the topics in the beginning was quite complex, understanding the proteomics and genomics was a little bit tough for me but other all the topics were just ossom. I thank all the coursera team for providing me such a opportunity to learn this course, thank you guys thanks alot .

I learnt many things..like..what are the things and challenges faced by the Pharma companies and case studies regarding drug discovery..This course helped me to learn about the steps how a R&D need to do its work in integrated and not in siloed way and many things.

Thank u

Very basic course to introduce to learners on drug discovery issues that include current/past challenges. It contains few examples which help to illustrate the concepts. A bit difficult to understand those examples if you have zero/limited pharmacology understanding.

This course helps to understand the basic fundamental & principles of drug discovery clearly. It's really helpful for me to develop my professional career. I am very thankful to the Coursera and University of California San Diego for providing this course to me.

It has really helped me to understand certain aspect of drug discovery process more nicely apart from academic point. but the course is quite outdated so it will be really helpful if it can be updated as par with current pharmaceutical industrial point of view.

very nice couse and the faculty were really good in explaining complex things simple which was easy to grasp the knowledge. The only draw back was the course study is from 2013 and addition of new information which might have changed after 2013 would be great.

It is very helpful course to know about drug synthesis and challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies , finally the amount of work done by researchers to synthesise medicine effective for particular cause and the effort to cross the hurdles in their research