The Drug Development Process from Concept to Market

Topics

• The roles of different pharmaceutical professionals
• The size of the global pharmaceutical market and the key therapeutic areas being addressed by innovator companies
• How new drugs are developed against targets in the human body
• Typical costs and timelines associated with drug development
• Factors affecting oral bioavailability
• Reasons why drugs fail during development
• The potential influence of polymorphism, salt form and isomerism on efficacy and safety
• How drugs are screened for toxicity
• How the safety and efficacy of drug products are ensured during QC release testing
• How formulation can affect drug performance
• The structure of regulatory submissions
• The information obtained at each stage of clinical research
• How the manufacture and distribution of marketed drug products are controlled
• How post-approval changes to drug products are managed

Who should Attend

• Recently-appointed scientific staff with no previous experience of the pharmaceutical industry
• Non-scientific employees of pharmaceutical companies who would like to understand how drugs are developed (e.g. IT, human resources, engineering and administrative staff)
• Any pharmaceutical employee wishing to improve their knowledge of drug development