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.
Program Overview
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3 skill-building courses
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2 months
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Discounted price: $267.30
Pre-discounted price: $297USD
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Courses in this program
DavidsonX's Drug Activity, Disposition, and Safety Professional Certificate
- Measuring Pharmacodynamics: From Ligand Binding to Clinical Outcomes
- Introduction to Pharmacokinetics: From ADME to PK/PD
- Preclinical Safety: From In Vitro Assays to Human Dose Predictions
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