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Professional Certificate in
Drug Activity, Disposition, and Safety
DavidsonX

What you will learn

  • Understand how drug-target interactions influence biological activity and therapeutic outcomes.
  • Analyze ADME properties and calculate key pharmacokinetic parameters from concentration-time data.
  • Compare in vitro, in silico, and in vivo techniques for evaluating drug efficacy and safety.
  • Interpret dose-response curves and identify pharmacodynamic relationships.
  • Assess how PK and PD data are combined to predict human dosing.
  • Describe the design and purpose of preclinical safety studies in regulatory drug development.
  • Evaluate toxicology data to determine safe starting doses for clinical trials.
  • Anticipate risks related to off-target activity, drug-drug interactions, and metabolic liabilities.
  • Apply a systematic framework for advancing drug candidates toward human testing.
Expert instruction
3 skill-building courses
Self-paced
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2 months
5 - 10 hours per week
Discounted price: $267.30
Pre-discounted price: $297USD
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Courses in this program

  1. DavidsonX's Drug Activity, Disposition, and Safety Professional Certificate

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from Davidson College (DavidsonX)

Erland Stevens
Faculty, Chemistry
Davidson College

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Discounted price: $267.30
Pre-discounted price: $297USD
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