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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

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.

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.

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By Sherianne T Y T

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Jun 7, 2020

The course materials are quite outdated as most of the lectures were given in 2013. It was also very technical in some parts which may make it difficult for beginners to understand some of the concepts.

By BRAYAN R C G

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Mar 16, 2021

I think that this Course can be improve in all aspects if it becomes more interactive. May be add some extra videos related to explanation or may be modify the videos for see the speaker and the ppw.

By Soren G

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Feb 3, 2019

Interesting material, but a bit old slides and several links were dead. The topic is very interesting and I hope to get to the drug development and drug commercialization soon.

By Angela A

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Feb 19, 2024

It was a good refresher of my pharmacy studies BUT it didn't offer any new information and the course material was dated, from 2013.

By Vivi M

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Jan 25, 2024

I think the content of the course is great but the lectures are from 2013 so it would be really valuable to have the content updated

By Zainab S

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Dec 28, 2022

the course content in the first few videos is a bit outdated due to the 7 year gap but otherwise I found it really intresting

By Raksha Y

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Apr 10, 2020

This course helps to understand pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and also various drug discovery strategies.

By Jennifer S

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Feb 2, 2021

Very Basic if you have worked in the industry a few years this may not be anything new. Needs to be updated.

By Lorenza M

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Jan 17, 2023

It was interesting but a bit too high level, also the quality of the audio's and video's could be improved

By Sophie A

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Apr 29, 2021

I would like to see this course updated with more recent data to demonstrate trends in drug discovery

By Chloe S

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Mar 25, 2018

Enjoyed the course material very much, however, the lectures are quite outdated.

By Deleted A

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Jul 9, 2021

Examples were from 5 years ago. It would have been nice if it was more updated.

By TADI S R

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May 16, 2020

good course to broaden knowledge of the drug designing& discovery

By Saimon S

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Jul 17, 2020

Please update the lectures with more recent statistics.

By Prarthana S

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Apr 25, 2020

Finished the course without buying certific

By Nektaria A

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Nov 25, 2022

very good course but needs an update

By Francesca C (

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Dec 29, 2021

really outdated but very informative

By Alexander V

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Feb 4, 2024

Content is already 10 years old.

By Juulke S

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Aug 16, 2024

Information is a bit outdated

By Kiran P W

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Jun 7, 2020

Good but too much time taken

By Jessica S

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Oct 20, 2022

needs to be updated

By H.K.C. S G

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Sep 2, 2020

Very helpful course.

By Arina A

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Sep 6, 2018

Difficult course

By dr d

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Sep 29, 2018

old,no updates

By Mariflor V

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Oct 30, 2020

Older lecture