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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Drug Discovery by University of California San Diego

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    About the Course

    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 cha...
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    Top reviews

    KS

    Aug 15, 2023

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    Great course, highly recommended. The course was well organized and the content relevant to my job role. It was delivered with great enthusiasm and the format ensured that it captured its audience.

    KA

    Jun 10, 2023

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    This course taught me about the nutshell procedure and process of drug discovery in biotech and pharma companies. I'm really grateful that this course explains very briefly and particularly.

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    Sep 26, 2020

    Nice

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    By Souvik P

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    Sep 6, 2020

    good

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    Sep 2, 2020

    Good

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    Jul 17, 2020

    good

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    Nov 6, 2016

    Although overall the course is interesting, it is clear that it has not been designed for MOOC format. A clear structure for learning lacks, and some of the lectures seem to be more about the people talking about their own work than trying to convey general concepts in the drug discovery field. I think the course would benefit from more structure in the way the lessons are presented, starting with a more general outline of what a good drug is etcetera. However, there are some interesting concepts I can take along in my further studies, but I am slightly disappointed.

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    By Saurabh G

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    May 18, 2020

    there is a lot of useful content but the delivery is not consistent because its basically a recording of lectures by various individuals who are speaking in their own style. The level of detail or technicality they go into also varies. The course is suitable for someone with a sound foundation in the biology involved in drug discovery and not for novices who want to understand what goes on behind coming up with a new drug.

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    Nov 5, 2021

    Unfortunately, this course is very outdated. Mostly regarding Week 1, which presents a pharma landscape almost 10 years old at this point. It could benefit a little more from going more into Drug Delivery. I would like to see a better structured, up to date version of this course because the information given was overall interesting and insightful, if only it were recent.

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    May 6, 2021

    The content from the 1st week needs to be refreshed. It uses data from 2015. Overall I got a quick overview of the drug discovery process. There were many topics introduced that I then had to look up to really understand the class/lecture/video. I would've liked to first been a shown a high-level overview of all the requisite steps with attrition rates.

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    By Aubrey W W

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    Feb 11, 2021

    The main reason I'm giving it a low rating is that it's listed as a beginner course, but beginners will probably be terribly confused until the last week's lectures. The first two weeks' are really advanced, and they require some deep previous knowledge of the subject. It would have been really interesting if I could have understood it better.

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    By Jason G

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    Oct 27, 2021

    Good overview of drug discovery, very in-depth and detailed, however it would be good to get the course slides before the tests as well as have readings associated to learn more. The tests/quizzes are very specific and obscure and don't accurately test your comprehension of the skills.

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    Feb 27, 2023

    This course was very beneficial for me to know about the challenges in drug discovery, clinical trials and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic properties with their efficacy potency and dosage forms. It was very fruitful activity to learn that kind of informative things online.

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    By ayantika g

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    Dec 31, 2020

    The materials were quite outdated-from 2013. There has been many developments in the past 7-8 years in the field of drug discovery, that us students were not able to know. It was for this purpose that I had undertaken to course- to know about the lasted updates in drug discovery.

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    Sep 18, 2024

    The content is vey interesting and well paced, my only wish was that more recent data and use cases were being shown in the lectures. Data from 2005-2015 could be updated considering how rapidly the pharma industry is evolving.

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    By Patrick G

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    May 15, 2022

    Good topics, but the use of different lecturers made the content fairly disjointed. The quizzes were also badly written, and need to be revised. And perhaps content updated? As the lectures are now almost 10 years old.

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    Jul 11, 2024

    I enrolled but now have to unenroll even after receiving my financial aid just because this course is very outdated. And for a topic like this which should show the most recent advances it's a waste of money.

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    Jun 6, 2020

    The course materials are quite outdated as most of the lectures were given in 2013. It was also very technical in some parts which may make it difficult for beginners to understand some of the concepts.

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    Mar 16, 2021

    I think that this Course can be improve in all aspects if it becomes more interactive. May be add some extra videos related to explanation or may be modify the videos for see the speaker and the ppw.

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    By Soren G

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    Feb 3, 2019

    Interesting material, but a bit old slides and several links were dead. The topic is very interesting and I hope to get to the drug development and drug commercialization soon.

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    By Angela A

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    Feb 19, 2024

    It was a good refresher of my pharmacy studies BUT it didn't offer any new information and the course material was dated, from 2013.

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    By Vivi M

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    Jan 25, 2024

    I think the content of the course is great but the lectures are from 2013 so it would be really valuable to have the content updated

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    By Zainab S

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    Dec 28, 2022

    the course content in the first few videos is a bit outdated due to the 7 year gap but otherwise I found it really intresting

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    By Raksha Y

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    Apr 10, 2020

    This course helps to understand pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and also various drug discovery strategies.

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    By Jennifer S

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    Feb 2, 2021

    Very Basic if you have worked in the industry a few years this may not be anything new. Needs to be updated.

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    By Lorenza M

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    Jan 17, 2023

    It was interesting but a bit too high level, also the quality of the audio's and video's could be improved

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    By Sophie A

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    Apr 29, 2021

    I would like to see this course updated with more recent data to demonstrate trends in drug discovery

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