Drug Delivery for Clinical Trials

Course aim

To provide an understanding of the procedures required for discovering and designing, developing and testing novel drugs, and the use of novel drugs in clinical trials.

Course content

Overview the procedures and processes involved in drug design and development for clinical trials; disease states and the need for treatments; history of drug discovery; identification of drug targets through disease research (including pathophysiology and molecular pathways of damage); developing compounds to act on a target; current targets and therapies in development; regulated manufacturing of compounds; high-throughput screening; pre-clinical studies; research ethics (animal and human); moving from pre-clinical to clinical trials and approvals required; study flaws and level of evidence; importance of study design; and clinical trial management.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
CHEM 1006	Chemistry 100
CHEM 1007	Chemistry 101

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Workshop	3 hours x 13 weeks
Practical	3 hours x 6 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Portfolio, Presentation, Quiz

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.