Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Good Brain, Bad Brain: Drug Origins
This course explored the past, present and future of how we have found drugs to improve human health.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Alison Cooper
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify a definition for the term drug
- Discuss how the purpose of drugs can be for symptom relief, to cure a disease or to prevent a disease
- Compare estimates for the length of time it takes to produce a drug and the cost of the process
- Identify the different mechanisms by which drugs have been discovered and how these have changed over time
- Explain how an understanding of the molecular structure of a drug target molecule can lead to the development of new drugs
- Describe the journey that a drug has to take through the body to its target and the factors that influence how much drug arrives at the target
- Compare the different routes by which drugs can be administered
- Explain how drug formulation impacts on how the drug works in the body
- Discuss the purpose of the various phases of clinical trials of drug development
Syllabus
- What is meant by the term “drug”
- What do we need drugs for
- How drugs are discovered: from natural substances to rational drug design
- What factors have to be considered when developing the chemical molecule with therapeutic potential into a drug that patients can take
- How is the safety of the drug tested and monitored
Issued on 25th January 2020
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