Section outline

  • After completing this course, you will be able to:
    • Describe the process of medicine discovery and development and identify the critical factors and decision points
    • Explain the concepts of efficacy and safety of a medicine
    • Relate pharmacovigilance to the concept of benefit - risk of medicine
    • Understand the concepts of life-cycle and intellectual property management of a medicine
     

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    Welcome to the lesson 'Process of Medicines Discovery and Development'! Throughout your learning, you will learn about the 12 steps of medicines R&D as well as the basics of the process. The lesson should take up to 2 hours (average). Please note that this lesson is very important as it sets the basis for the upcoming and other courses of this Programme.