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Overview
What you will study
KTH Royal Institute of Technology's course of Drug Development will cover a broad range of aspects of drug development. It will give current examples from the pharmaceutical industry and will mainly be given by invited guest lecturers.
After successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- Describe the different classes of pharmaceutical substances: proteins and other large molecules, small organic molecules, peptides, viral vectors and cells, with regards to their properties, production, safety and therapeutic areas
- Describe and discuss the steps and important concepts in drug discovery and development, from target validation to commercial introduction of new therapeutic drugs, including the methods used in this field
- Explain what is meant by administration, absorption, distribution and elimination, as well as pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic, and their implication in the development of new therapeutic drugs
- Describe how the market landscape is for the different types of drugs and their therapeutic areas, and describe how this market has evolved this last century
- Describe the studies and methods used to test the drugs before they are applied to human and in clinical trials
- Give an account of- and explain how the therapeutic drugs are commercially produced, including the administration routes and delivery systems
- Describe how the safety issues, the authority regulation and intellectual property aspects impact the process of drug discovery and development
- Give an account of the use of computer based methods, including bioinformatics and genomics in drug discovery and development
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Classification of active substances and their pharmaceutical properties
- Basic pharmacology about administration, absorption, distribution and elimination, as well as pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
- Methods for target identification and validation for drug development, including bioinformatics/genomics
- Methods for drug development such as screening, computer based calculations, in silico drug design and ADMET prediction
- Safety and efficacy requirements as well as the methods used in pre-clinical studies and clinical trials of new pharmaceutical drugs
- Market landscape for the different types of drugs and their therapeutic areas
- Entrepreneurship and development of newly established research companies
- Intellectual property protection in the context of drug development and commercialisation
- Methods for commercial production of active substances
- Methods for pharmaceutical drug delivery including nano particles
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
TOEFL® IBT 90
Credits
7 ECTS
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
PharmacologyAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
TOEFL® IBT 90
Student insurance
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- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Bachelor's degree in technology or natural sciences containing 20 credits courses in biotechnology and 20 credits courses in chemistry.
- English B/6.
Tuition Fee
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EU/EEA
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 SEK for the full programme during 3 months.
If you are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen or hold a residence permit in Sweden for something other than studies you generally do not have to pay tuition fees.
Living costs for Stockholm
9668 - 17248 SEK /month
Living costs
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Funding
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