Turning a basic research idea into a medicine development project (Mandatory) (2024)

Welcome to Turning a basic research idea into a medicine development project

Program: B (CPM, CSLTM) - MANDATORY COURSE FOR BIOMEDICINE (B)

The goal of the Ph.D. course:

Doing research is fun and exciting, but to transform your research into something that can be developed for patients or into a business is often more difficult than thought.

Introduction and setup:

To identify what the target is, how the target can be used to do something useful for a patient. Just a basic question like which disease should we go after? Often a pathway or protein or process is involved in diverse types of diseases. Which one should we pick, and why pick a specific disease.

Based on experience from both academic research and biotech we will go into several projects, both with success and ones that did not work out. See what the critical parts were, and where were the successes.

Also, what are some simple things that need to be in place for being able to develop a project, like can you measure activity of the project, IC50 of an enzyme, animal model to show it works. Toxicity, pharmacodynamics etc. how can one optimize the effects of the treatment etc.

Furthermore, management of a project, resources, financial, advisory board etc.

The course will involve a project where the students will take a target, they do their PhD on, and see how to make such a project in a biotech ready business.

Setup: Lecture (via internet, if necessary) and individual or project group wise project feedback session with the course coordinator, as well as a day presenting the projects with Q & A with the other students.

Literature/Requirements: TBA

Prerequisites: Basic biomedicine understanding and a drive for making a change.

Evaluation: Passed/ not passed