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This MOOC is the first of its kind, since it addresses critical issues related to drugs from a multidisciplinary, health and human rights-based approach. Throughout the course you will cover a range of questions including what are drugs and why they controlled? What are the benefits and harms of taking drugs? How public health policies can address drug use? You will also learn about the intricacies of the international drug control framework and the negative consequences of widespread prohibitionist drug policies around the world. Finally, you will examine ways of furthering drug policy reform. The topics will be presented by over 40 speakers from scientific, academic and institutional backgrounds, spokespersons of civil society as well as people who use drugs presenting their views. By the end of the course you will have: - a strong understanding of the major health issues related to drug use and drug policy; - a clear vision of why drug policy is debated today; - and, if you so wish, you will be equipped to engage in the drug policy reform movement at your local or regional level.

The purpose of this course is to present, analyze and discuss the different facets of business strategy formulation. Emphasizing that strategy can be seen as a unified theme that provides coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of a firm, we will cover a variety of business strategy topics concerned with firm positioning in the context of different markets, industries and locations. At the end of the course, you will be able to: - Identify why a strong strategy is essential for the future business success - Formulate a business strategy that suits the needs and visions of your organization - Explain why managers too often formulate sub-optimal strategies - Extrapolate measures to optimize current business strategies Workload: 2-4 hours per week.

In this course we will focus on how active compounds are developed into a formulation suitable for dosing in animal studies and early human clinical trials. Factors such as the route of administration, enhancing the solubility of the drug substance, the crystalline form of the drug substance, drug substance vs. drug product, storage requirements, and how special requirements of the patient population play a role in the design of an ideal formulation will be covered. Finally, some of the differences encountered when formulating a biologic vs. a small molecule will be discussed. Target audience: This course is suitable for life scientists, clinicians, and individuals from fields that support drug discovery (e.g., patents, finance, licensing, etc.) interested in learning more about the pharmaceutical/biotechnology sector. Advanced undergraduate coursework or practical familiarity/working knowledge in biological sciences and organic chemistry is recommended.

Contemplate big questions about the future of biologics Biotechnology is helping the world of research evolve at high speed. Stay in the know about the latest innovations in pharmaceutical biotechnologies with this online course from the University of Padova. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to apply fundamental skills to biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences and its related fields. Gain cutting-edge insights into pharmaceutical and biotechnological drug development This course will bridge theory and practice to provide you with a comprehensive exploration of pharmaceutical biotechnologies. You’ll analyse innovative biotech drugs, delve into the molecular interactions shaping drug efficacy, and navigate the regulatory landscape of clinical trials. The curriculum will focus on exploring the principles of biotechnological drugs and their production. You’ll understand the difference between biotechnological drugs from traditional ones, discuss drug design, and grasp some of the challenges involved in different production stages. Dive deeper into pharmaceutical biological therapeutics, from production to formulation After gaining a solid understanding of the fundamentals, you’ll delve deeper into more specialised topics and gain advanced drug formulation techniques. You’ll learn how biological drugs interact with the body and why clinical trials and regulatory frameworks are so essential for evaluating their safety and efficacy. Learn with experts from the University of Padova’s Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences (DSF) In addition to real-world case studies, you’ll be supported by the faculty of seasoned professionals and researchers at the University of Padova’s DSF, whose disciplines span pharmaceutical chemistry and technology, pharmacology, biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology. This course is designed for anyone interested in learning more about pharmaceutical biotechnologies. It’s ideal for those looking to broaden their drug science understanding or stay up-to-date on the latest biopharmaceutical advancements.

The second course in the specialization, Cosmetic Formulation Science, delves deeper into the fundamentals of cosmetic formulations. The focus here is on the selection and use of raw materials, a critical aspect of cosmetic science. You will develop more detailed insight into choosing and using various cosmetic raw materials. Moreover, you will learn the essentials of safe and effective laboratory work and documentation. This course is a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical application, setting the stage for advanced learning in cosmetic science.

Learn about how drugs are discovered and developed with a top pharmaceutical professional. What you'll learn: Have insight into the pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy, and drug discovery and development processUnderstand how drugs candidates are discovered, developed, put through clinical trial, and regulatedKnow the similarity and differences between generic and innovator (brand) drugsAlternative and complementary medicine, what they are, why people use them, and how they "work"Decide for yourself the controversies surrounding "Big Pharma" and how they workLearn how to think like a pharmaceutical scientist or a clinical project coordinatorUnderstand the difference between pharmaceutical scientist, pharmacist, pharmacologists, toxicologists, doctors, and nurses,The theory of bioequivalence, narrow therapeutic drugs, regulatory requirementsAnd many, many more..... Understand the science behind pharmaceutical drug discovery, drug development, and clinical trials. Whether you're expanding your career knowledge into the pharmaceutical industry or an aspiring pharmaceutical scientist or clinical project coordinator, you've come to the right place.This course will give you an introductory understanding of the science behind how drug candidates are discovered and selected, how drugs are developed, the process of clinical trial, alternative medicine, generic and innovator drugs, regulatory affairs, and an overview of the pharmaceutical industry,While most science courses focus on simply what the theories are, I teach through applicable, real-life examples designed to show you why these theories work and how they can be applied in your very own daily lives. I will not teach you to memorize formulas, theories, or to regurgitate facts and drug names. I will provide insights into the drug discovery and development through the lens of a pharmaceutical scientist or clinical project coordinator. By the end of the course, you'll be able to: Describe how drugs candidates are discovered, developed, put through clinical trial, and regulatedExplain the similarity and differences between generic and innovator (brand) drugsUnderstand alternative and complementary medicine, what they are, why people use them, and how they "work"Discuss the controversies surrounding "Big Pharma" and the biggest lawsuits surrounding pharmaceutical companiesExplain the theory of bioequivalence, narrow therapeutic drugs, regulatory requirementsKnow the difference between pharmaceutical scientist, pharmacist, pharmacologists, toxicologists, doctors, and nursesAnd many, many more! The course will provide you with: Instructional videos of course contentLecture slides to go with the instructional videosDownloadable technical resourcesQuizzes to test your understandingLifetime accessEmail and message support Disclaimer:The contents of this course "Introduction to Drug Discovery and Drug Development", including but not limited to text, graphics, images, and other material contained on Udemy (“Content”) are for informational purposes only. I do not intend the Content to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read or learned it on Udemy.

Explore the construction of extended formulations in this lecture by Volker Kaibel from Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. Delve into topics such as convex hulls, linear programming, representations as projections, and various polytopes including completion times, colorful matching, and cycle polytopes. Examine special matchings, perfect hash functions, and hyperpath polytopes. Investigate branched combinatorial and polyhedral systems, extended formulations via duality, and their applications to spanning tree polytopes. Learn about non-extended formulations of nonempty-subgraphs polytopes, graphs of bounded genus, and spanning trees in planar graphs. Gain insights into linear descriptions and polynomial spanning tree optimization in this comprehensive exploration of extended formulations and related concepts.

The Pharmacy Technician Essentials course provides an in-depth look at what a career in a pharmacy will look like. Through several lessons, students learn the ins and outs of a pharmacy setting and the meaning of the terminology used daily within a pharmacy environment. This course also provides a deep dive into the purpose of the top 200 most commonly prescribed medications and drug routes and formulations. Students will be able to demonstrate correct processing of medication orders, preparation, storage, and distribution of medications, by the end of the course. On top of knowing the medications being prescribed, students must also learn how to use pharmacy equipment, including management software and reading of prescriptions. At the completion of this course, students should have a solid understanding of what their day-to-day tasks will be within a pharmacy environment and how to use the necessary tools to excel in their new career. Course objectives include: - Identify the primary functions of different pharmacy organizations - Discuss the different roles of the pharmacy technician - Describe the common drugs and their uses, drug routes and formulations, and factor affecting drug activity - Understand pharmacy management software, as well as reading and interpreting prescriptions

The demand for skilled data scientists continues to surge as organizations seek to harness the power of machine learning and data-driven insights. The Data Scientist program, developed by Microsoft and delivered on edX, is designed for learners ready to take their data science skills to the cloud. Through three practical, project-based courses, you’ll explore how to set up and configure the Azure Machine Learning workspace, train models using custom scripts, and deploy models as scalable endpoints. You’ll gain proficiency with tools like Jupyter Notebooks, Python, and Azure ML SDKs—all while learning to operationalize machine learning in real business scenarios. This program is ideal for data professionals, analysts, and aspiring machine learning engineers seeking to build robust, cloud-based ML pipelines. Whether you're transitioning into a data science role or expanding your cloud skill set, this program delivers a strong foundation aligned with industry needs and Azure certification pathways.

This advanced Nanodegree prepares you to tackle data science at scale. Work with AI best practices, build production-ready projects, and gain the confidence to lead data-driven solutions.

Learn about how drugs are made and the science behind dosage form design with a top pharmaceutical professional. What you'll learn: Understand the science behind dosage form design, dosing regimen, particles and powder, and solutionsSee how drugs, such as tablets, coated tablets, capsules, powders, and granules, are madeLearn the science of dosage form design, microbiology, sterilization, pasteurization, and drug stabilityRelate pharmaceutical drugs and their use with real life examples and applicationsHave insight into the pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy, and drug manufacturing processLearn how to think like a pharmaceutical scientist or a compounding pharmacist in the fields of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceuticsAnd many, many more..... Understand the science behind pharmaceutical drug making. Whether you're getting acquainted with the pharmaceutical industry or an aspiring pharmaceutical scientist, you've come to the right place.This course will give you an introduction and basic understanding of the science behind how drugs designed, manufactured, tested, how they work, and testing requirements surrounding medicinal drugs.While most science courses focus on simply what the theories are, I teach through applicable, real-life examples designed to show you why these theories work and how they can be applied in your very own daily lives. I will not teach you to memorize formulas, theories, or to regurgitate facts and drug names. I will teach you how these theories are applied by a pharmaceutical scientist. By the end of the course, you'll be able to: Describe what are drugs, how they are made, and how they work in the body.Explain what makes up a drug and what routes of administration are there.Understand the science behind drug design and the theories behind solution, powder, granules, and dispersion systems.Discussion theories such as dissolution, particle size, shape, density, porosity, wettability, flowability and many more.Appreciate basics of microbiology, sterilization techniques, pasteurization, and vaccines.Understand why you take most drugs multiple times a day and what you should do when you miss a dose.Have a first look at the drug manufacturing process and understand Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). The course will provide you with: Instructional videos of course contentLecture slides to go with the instructional videosDownloadable technical resourcesQuizzes to test your understandingLifetime accessEmail and message support Disclaimer:The contents of this course "Introduction to Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics", including but not limited to text, graphics, images, and other material contained on Udemy (“Content”) are for informational purposes only. I do not intend the Content to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read or learned it on Udemy.

What does it take to advance a new drug from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside? Historically, drugs were discovered serendipitously and were usually isolated from natural sources. Today, drug discovery efforts take many years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. They also require the input of dozens of specialists from a multitude of backgrounds to ensure that therapeutic molecules are efficacious and safe. This four-week course takes a high-level tour of what it takes to research and develop a new drug. We will meet different scientists and professionals across the drug discovery value chain as we explore the different stages of discovery and development, including the different tools and technologies that are influencing how we think about new medicines today. Starting off with the needs of the patient and the early phases of drug discovery, we will cover drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics and drug safety all the way to clinical development and beyond. This course is relevant for scientists who are new to drug discovery research or already have some experience, health professionals, or anyone who is interested in knowing what had to happen to ensure that their medicine is effective and safe.

Learn about planetary mission formulation in this lecture from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Karl Mitchell, delivered as part of the Keck Institute for Space Studies' "Digital Twins for Solar System Exploration" short course. Explore the fundamental concepts and processes involved in planning and developing missions to explore other planets in our solar system, drawing from JPL's extensive experience in space exploration.

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are spending years and millions of dollars developing drugs or promising new biologics, all with the hopes of saving or enhancing patients’ lives. This specialization will provide you with a 30,000 feet view of the entire process of drug discovery and development. In the first course you will begin with learning how scientists go from selecting a drug discovery target to filing an Initial New Drug application. In the second course you will learn the intricacy of drug development from Phase 0 to Phase 3 clinical trials and filing a New Drug Application. Finally, in the third course, the specialization will provide you an understanding of the complexities in launching new pharmaceutical products, ensuring sales success and patient access. Healthcare in the U.S. is unlike any other developed country, and this third course provides a good overview for anyone wanting to understand how the U.S. market works. By the end of the specialization, you will have mastered a better understanding of the process of discovering new drugs. After completing this specialization if you are interested in pursuing a career specializing in drug development and product management you may want to consider exploring our Master of Science in Drug Development & Product Management at ddpm.ucsd.edu

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.

The University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Commercialization 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 commercialization. This course will cover pharmacoeconomic, marketing strategy, intellectual property strategy, portfolio management, managed markets and strategic alliances. It will also have a lecture case study from startup to success. In addition, the course will discuss post-marketing clinical trials or Phase 4 trials. These are conducted after a new drug has been approved by the regulatory agencies and launched. In these studies, the new drug is prescribed in an everyday healthcare environ­ment using a much larger group of patients. This enables new treat­ment uses for the new drug to be developed, comparisons with other treatments for the same indication to be made, and determination of the clinical effectiveness of the new drug in a wider variety of patient types, and more rare side effects, if any, may be detected . Pre-marketing strategy should be instigated as early as Phase 1 clinical trials to ensure that the market's needs are incorporated into the new drug's overall develop­ment. Later phases when clinical results are presented at international medical conferences the marketing strategy is then refined in order to develop an awareness amongst the medical community who will be prescribing the new drug. In addition to the marketing strategy, pricing strategy and a tactical plan will be developed. Promotional material, and the sales force will be trained so that when the product is approved they can promote the drug to physician, pharmacist and nurses. This course is intended as part 3 of a series: Drug Discovery (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-discovery), Drug Development (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-development) and 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.

The University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Development 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 development. In this course you will learn the different stages of clinical development as well as the regulatory including but not limited to, an Investigational New Drug Application (IND), New Drug Application (NDA), and product labeling. Additionally you will learn how to Incorporate study design methods for consideration in the design of clinical protocols to assess safety, tolerability, and efficacy in multiple therapeutic areas. In this course you will learn the different phases of clinical development: * Phase 1 or early stage clinical trial are conducted primar­ily to determine how the new drug works in humans, its safety profile and to predict its dosage range. It typically involves between 30 and 100 healthy volunteers. * Phase 2 or Proof of Concept POC studies test for efficacy as well as safety and side effects in a group of between 30 to 200 hundred patients with the disease for which the new drug is being developed. * Phase 3 or late stage clinical development involve much larger group of patients, between a few hundred to thousands, depending on the indication, which will help determine if the new drug can be considered both safe and effective. It will involve control groups using placebo and/or current treatment as a comparison. * Product registration and approval process after a drug is considered safe and effective from Phase 3 trials, it must be authorized in each individual country before it can be marketed. All data gen­erated about the small molecule or biologic is collected and submitted to the regulatory authorities in the US at the FDA, Food and Drug Administration FDA, in Europe the EMA or European Medicines Agency, Japan Ministry of Health and other countries which may require their own national approvals. This course is intended as part 2 of a series: Drug Discovery (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-discovery), 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.

Discover how to build a knowledge graph using Spark and NLP to recommend novel drugs to scientists. Learn about AstraZeneca's "5R" framework and its impact on improving efficiency in drug discovery. Explore the challenges of parsing large amounts of information from various formats and data models, and how to formulate drug target finding as a hybrid recommendation problem. Delve into the process of assembling a large-scale knowledge graph from public and internal data, focusing on NLP techniques to extract precise information at scale. Gain insights into graph embedding pipelines, approximate nearest neighbor search, and valuable lessons learned in the field of drug discovery and recommendation systems.

Explore the mathematical foundations and formulations of Two-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) in this 32-minute lecture from NPTEL-NOC IITM. Learn how to analyze the effects of two independent variables on a dependent variable, understand the underlying statistical concepts, and master the mathematical formulations needed to perform and interpret two-way ANOVA tests effectively.

Graduate-level introduction to mathematical modeling of heat and mass transfer (diffusion and convection), fluid dynamics, chemical reactions, and phase transformations.