Novartis Courses

Pharmacokinetics

82 ratings at Coursera

Determine volume of distribution, half-life and clearance from concentration-time data, apply in vitro ADME assays, and use PK/PD relationships to predict human dose and select compounds.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Clinical Trials: Good Clinical Practice

798 ratings at Coursera

Learn to run trials under ICH Good Clinical Practice: protect participant safety, prepare sites and personnel, recruit participants, and safeguard data integrity and regulatory compliance.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Introduction to Good Clinical Practice

531 ratings at Coursera

Learn the principles of Good Clinical Practice: ICH GCP guidelines, informed consent, risk and data integrity, the drug discovery process, and diversity in trial inclusion criteria.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Drug Hunting: The Science of Making New Medicines

314 ratings at Coursera

Explore preclinical drug discovery from target identification and assay screening through lead selection and optimization, pharmacokinetics, preclinical safety, and preformulation.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Fundamentals of Good Clinical Practice: Recruitment & Trial

233 ratings at Coursera

Learn to recruit and enroll trial patients, run the informed consent process with vulnerable groups, and handle documentation, protocol compliance, close-out and archiving under GCP.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fundamentals of Good Clinical Practice: Prep and Personnel

172 ratings at Coursera

Learn how an investigator and site prepare to run a clinical trial: qualification criteria, site selection visits, essential documents, IRB/IEC review, ALCOA+ source data, and site staff roles.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Drug Hunting

166 ratings at Coursera

Follow a drug from idea to candidate: survey preclinical discovery steps, target and molecule evaluation, pharmacokinetics, safety, clinical hurdles, and competitive intelligence.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Pre-formulation

57 ratings at Coursera

Learn how active compounds become dosable formulations: route of administration, solubility enhancement, crystalline form, drug substance versus drug product, storage needs, and biologic versus small-molecule differences.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Targets, Assays & Screening

39 ratings at Coursera

Explore early-stage drug discovery: compare target-based and phenotypic approaches, screen small-molecule libraries, design assay types, and validate that hits engage the intended target.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Preclinical Safety

37 ratings at Coursera

Learn how in vitro and in vivo toxicology studies identify drug safety risks, set a therapeutic index or safety window, and guide early human dose selection.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Lead Selection & Optimization

33 ratings at Coursera

Follow an antimalarial discovery case study to select and optimize drug leads: screening assays, potency, efficacy, pharmacokinetics criteria, and structure-activity relationships shaping a pharmacophore.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Representation in Clinical Trials

24 ratings at Coursera

Learn why representation in clinical trials matters: healthcare disparities, barriers and mistrust among underrepresented populations, and how conscious and unconscious bias shapes clinical research.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course