New course on pharmaceutical development and entrepreneurship, of which the course management has extensive experience. The course is mainly aimed at registered graduate student, but applications from scientists/postdocs with a PhD degree are also accepted.
The course is given in English. The course will run from October 30 until November 18, 2017.
If you are interested please contact peter.thoren@gu.se
More information: http://sahlgrenska.gu.se/digitalAssets/1620/1620548_syllabus-entrepreneurship-in-biomedical-research-2.5hec-confirmed-170307.pdf
The course will concentrate all lectures (usually 4 lectures/day) the first 9 days including the group work . The last week you will to a large extent have free time to prepare for the examination late week 46.
You will get a detailed plan of the course (including lectures, group work and examination) about 6 week (mid September) before the course starts.
Main course leaders will be Senior Professor Peter Thoren and the participating organizers will be Adjunct Prof Anders Lehmann, Adjunct Prof Jan Törnell, Professor Jenny Nyström. Peter, Anders and Jan have together more than 50 years of experience from working with drug development within AstraZeneca. In addition, Jenny, Anders and Jan also have extensive experience of working in small biomedicine start-up companies. We will also invite many internal (within GU) and external (outside GU) experts in the fields as speakers.
The focus of the course will be biomedical entrepreneurship but the course will also provide an overview of early drug development.
The course will cover the following topics:
A) During the first two days there will be overview lectures on drug development of both small molecules and biologicals
B) The main part of the course will cover how to develop your research ideas into favorable concrete patient outcome, basic knowledge on how to start a company and entrepreneurship:
• How do I develop my research ideas into patient benefit?
• What support can I get to develop my idea?
• How do I form a company?
• How do I create a business plan?
• How do I get financial support to develop my research idea and company?
• How can I decide if there is a clinical or commercial value in my research idea?
• How to manage patent matters?
• Case studies; How did we succeed in our drug development project?
C) The course will also discuss why projects fail and strategies to mitigate this. A few hours will be spent on supervised teamwork to analyse project ideas, success stories and less successful cases
D) The final written examination will take place in the end of week 46. The student will be tested on the content of the lectures and a number of scientific papers.
If you are interested please contact peter.thoren@gu.se