Welcome to Turning a basic research idea into a medicine development project (2025)

Program:  B ***mandatory course **** (also relevant for CPM, CSLTM)

Goal with the PhD course

Doing research is fun and exciting, but to transform your research into something that can be developed for patients 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 are 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.

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

Time and setup

The course is a 2.5 ECTS course, with 2-day lectures (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.

Prerequisites: 

Basic biomedicine understanding and a drive for make a change

Important information concerning PhD courses: 

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.

We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.