Drug Discovery and Development (Including Pharmacology)

This course introduces the drug discovery and development process: target identification, biological screening, hit to lead, pharmacology, safety, manufacturing, pre-clinical and clinical. Focusing on selected case studies, the course explores innovation within a field of complex scientific and strategic decision making, where outcomes and results are unpredictable.

Governed by strategic business decisions, ethical considerations, social responsibilities and research at the forefront of bioscience, including genomics, molecular biology, biotechnology and bioinformatics, the examination of drug discovery and development provides insight into exploratory methodologies and interdisciplinary practice.