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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

AG

Nov 14, 2020

This course gives a very nice introduction into different considerations of drug development. Altough it is a bit older, I feel the topics are still relevant and up to date.

A

Jun 7, 2023

It was a brilliant course, thank you for putting this together on Coursera. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and look forward to completing the rest of the series.

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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

By Shahriar A R

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Sep 3, 2020

This is really an amazing course to gain knowledge about Drug Discovery/Development.

By Elke v S d F

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May 11, 2020

It provides the basics of pharma industry, drug research discovery and development

By Liew H P

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Aug 15, 2017

This course provides a good basic run down of some aspects of Drug Discovery.

By Álvaro S V

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Feb 12, 2019

It is a good course to get into the pharmaceutical and drug discovery world

By Mukhtar A

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Dec 7, 2021

This course provides a good introduction to Drug Discovery concepts.

By ANANGA M D

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Jun 12, 2020

It's very excellent experiences. Knowledge increasing experience

By Anuradha k

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Aug 17, 2020

it is a good course and has emmence knowledge. THANKYOU COURSERA

By SOUNA B

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Nov 3, 2023

I learn about the pharmacy & drug development and discovery etc

By perla b

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Nov 15, 2020

a good introduction about the complex process of drug discovery

By Vennila J

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Jun 30, 2020

This course has paved way to become proficient in the concepts.

By anusuya

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Nov 22, 2020

This courses is help to gain knowledge and spread knowledge

By Pragna M K

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Jun 10, 2020

Very detailed oriented. Loved the way it has been designed.

By Zhelin L

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Oct 19, 2019

Very friendy for beginner to the pharmaceutical industry.

By Javier T

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Mar 26, 2020

Interesting and informative course about drug discovery.

By Hesham E

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May 9, 2020

The course is concise, yet informative and resourceful.

By Roxana A S

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Jan 6, 2022

Loved the course but it looks like it needs an update!

By 17BU1R0084

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Jun 22, 2020

Drug discovery was quite interesting and complicated.

By Christine C

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Jul 9, 2021

Great course but the material is a bit dated (~2013)

By Michal P

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Apr 8, 2019

The course is a good introduction to drug discovery.

By Reet R

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Mar 17, 2025

really good course. my favorite part was module 5.

By SUBHA S

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Aug 7, 2022

A VERY RICH LEARNING RESOURCE, GREAT INSTRUCTORS.

By Sterling J

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Dec 6, 2020

Great and concise introduction to drug discovery.

By Ahmed S A

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Nov 6, 2020

very good and will help me a lot after graduation