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About the Course

The University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Commercialization course brings you lectures from both faculty and industry experts. With this course, recorded on campus at UCSD, we seek to share our access to top people in the field who bring an unprecedented range of expertise on drug commercialization. This course will cover pharmacoeconomic, marketing strategy, intellectual property strategy, portfolio management, managed markets and strategic alliances. It will also have a lecture case study from startup to success. In addition, the course will discuss post-marketing clinical trials or Phase 4 trials. These are conducted after a new drug has been approved by the regulatory agencies and launched. In these studies, the new drug is prescribed in an everyday healthcare environ­ment using a much larger group of patients. This enables new treat­ment uses for the new drug to be developed, comparisons with other treatments for the same indication to be made, and determination of the clinical effectiveness of the new drug in a wider variety of patient types, and more rare side effects, if any, may be detected . Pre-marketing strategy should be instigated as early as Phase 1 clinical trials to ensure that the market's needs are incorporated into the new drug's overall develop­ment. Later phases when clinical results are presented at international medical conferences the marketing strategy is then refined in order to develop an awareness amongst the medical community who will be prescribing the new drug. In addition to the marketing strategy, pricing strategy and a tactical plan will be developed. Promotional material, and the sales force will be trained so that when the product is approved they can promote the drug to physician, pharmacist and nurses. This course is intended as part 3 of a series: Drug Discovery (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-discovery), Drug Development (https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-development) and Drug Commercialization. We would highly recommend that you take the courses in order since it will give you a better understanding on how a drug is discovered in the lab before being tested in clinical trials and then launched in the market place....

Top reviews

JT

Jun 25, 2020

interesting to learn about how the pharma industry works (as i'm not majoring in any related field) but i think you'd have to take the other 2 courses before this to gain a more complete understanding

MN

Mar 11, 2020

very good course! Especially weeks 2 and 3 are very interesting and the lecturers were well-organized and structured! I enjoyed it more than the previous two courses

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By wungmi m

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Jun 4, 2020

Overall a decent course. Content seems to be outdated as most of them are that of 2013 data. Pharma business model section was really informative and interesting.

By Matthew F

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Sep 12, 2017

Interesting course with some interesting and relevant case studies. This is a great 101 course with stronger focus in certain areas of commercialization.

By Stavroula L

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Apr 23, 2021

Very well structured. I believe it could be updated and focus more on international scope rather that USA only. But great course, I totally recommend.

By Huong L

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Oct 21, 2021

I cannot read ome of uploaded materials because the background and text on slides are in the same color. Clear and real stories from lecturers.

By Ailbhe O

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Jul 1, 2020

Good course content for the majority on commercialization and markets, but some modules were a bit repetitive towards the end.

By Steve M

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Aug 14, 2020

Excellent insight into the process and challenges of DC. The material could do with refresh to ensure it is up to date.

By Mehedee H

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Aug 24, 2019

Very well equipped.But I think this course should upgrade over time & make it more Global than US-centered overview.

By Aparna P

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Mar 2, 2024

Would have liked an additional coursework or module on working thru different phases of a project in this area

By Sanjay K N

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Feb 7, 2019

Very comprehensive 101 course, good for folks who are new to ways of working of pharma industry

By KARTHIKEYAN M S

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Jul 29, 2020

Shows the different dimensions of pharma and biotech industry with a commercial point of view.

By Fabian O

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May 23, 2020

Really well summarized lecture series with highly compressed and relevant inforamtion content.

By Doris G

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May 6, 2020

Overall quality is very good, however some information is quite old: an update is needed

By Nektaria A

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Mar 16, 2023

may benefit some refreshment post-covid but overall accurate and nicely rolled out

By Susan

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Feb 21, 2021

It would be better to include some business concepts & principles in this course

By Ryo S

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Jun 12, 2017

Some of guest lectures were really insightful. Great overview of various topics.

By Matthew M

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Sep 7, 2017

Good introduction for those not in industry but quite easy for those who are

By Paul C

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Mar 2, 2017

Well-organized industrial know-hows and useful concepts of business model

By Mohamed M M A

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Jul 10, 2017

Thank you for the wonderful effort. I benefited greatly from this course

By Divya G

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Jun 14, 2021

The course could have been more interactive. But overall good course.

By Kanvar S K

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Jun 17, 2020

Does what it says on the cover, gives you a very high level overview

By MAROUANE B

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Jul 19, 2020

le cour est très pertinente , mes grands salutations a vous

By Mansour M E M

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Apr 19, 2020

thank you very clear and interesting courses

By Mahi P

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Aug 4, 2020

i found it very useful and innovative

By Sunaina R

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May 2, 2020

Very informative, a 100% recommended.

By Khairul S M A

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Sep 28, 2020

a great course with experts opinion