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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

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.

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.

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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 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 Hewawasam K C S

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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

By Miia A

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Apr 20, 2022

Fine course

By Abla m i

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Aug 8, 2022

thank you

By Surisetty H k

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Jun 9, 2020

Nce course

By bhavana d

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May 27, 2022

good

By DR. A G

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Sep 5, 2020

GOOG

By Robert W

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Dec 22, 2020

The variance in complexity/accessibility made this course at times extremely difficult to follow and enjoy. Week 1 and Week 3 were good, particularly Week 3 where the lecturer took time to explain the basic concepts and terminology. Week 2 is just a nightmare for anyone without a fairly developed scientific knowledge.

By Tetsuo U

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Feb 9, 2020

Some aspects in this course are still valid and relevant today, but some of the contents are now more of historical interest. Good to renew the course including the critical assessment of the contents presented in the course with respect to how they have fared out.