Delegate feedback
“I would like to give some feedback on Ed's sessions. I totally
loved them. He is really good and the content is top. I really hope
we have more sessions like this in the future. Really amazing talk!”
Delegate AI company
“Shortly after attending the course I had a meeting with one of our
biotech clients who later complimented me on my grasp of technical
language. The day spent in Cambridge learning about the drug
discovery business was definitely worthwhile!” Alex Malocca, Great
Guns Marketing
“Our team all took something positive from the course, we certainly
are far better prepared to handle future projects within the
industry. Ed was an excellent teacher, and went at a pace that
allowed us to take everything in, whilst still covering the entire
drug production process - we highly recommend the course.” Laurence
Emmett, Director, Cranleigh Scientific
The How the Drug Discovery Industry Works course provides a
detailed overview of the organisation and activities of the modern
biopharmaceutical industry relevant to new employees and those with
more established professional connections. Topics include the
commercial background of the Life Sciences industry and the
processes required to identify and move a drug candidate from the
discovery laboratory through to the marketplace.
The course is aimed at both scientists and non-scientists and
provides an explanation of some of the key jargon used which is
useful for the technical nature of some of the material. Drug
discovery and development is a technical enterprise that can be
daunting to those without the relevant background, so the content
and delivery of the course has been designed with this in mind. In
addition, delegates are provided with a comprehensive series of
references for further reading including The Science and Business of
Drug Discovery- demystifying the jargon and Twenty-first Century
Drug Discovery- an expanding landscape both published by Springer
Nature and written by the trainer Ed Zanders (see
Books).
Agenda
The commercial landscape
Global pharmaceutical sales Biopharma companies and their products
The market, including patients with rare diseases
Pricing models Intellectual property
The drug discovery process
The drug discovery pipeline
Regulatory agencies
Preclinical development
Clinical trials
Pharmacovigilance
Marketing applications
The expanding landscape of biopharmaceutical R&D
Target discovery:
Natural ligands (pharmacology)
Genomics, proteomics and metabolomics
Druggable and undruggable targets
Protein engineering
Gene therapies cell therapies
Targeted protein degradation
New approach methodologies
Machine learning and AI
Further reading
Course availability
The How the Drug Discovery Industry Works course is available as part of
BioUK's BioLearn series of training courses. In person courses are
generally held in Oxford while online sessions are delivered using
Zoom. Contact
Hannah Deacon at BioUK for dates, locations and pricing.