Drug Design Courses and Certifications

Artificial Intelligence Drug Design

Explore how AI transforms drug discovery, from target identification and AlphaFold protein prediction to molecular generation, retrosynthesis, delivery-system design, and ADMET prediction.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Computer-Aided Drug Design

Want to know how those amazing drugs were designed? This Computer-Aided Drug Design course can satisfy your curiosity!

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Drug Design

Fudan's drug design course pairs target theory and structure-based design with hands-on computer-aided experiments: sequence alignment, protein display, 3D molecule building, pharmacophore models, and molecular docking.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Novartis

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

Introduction to Drug Discovery

This course provides an integrated overview of modern drug discovery, covering drug delivery principles, biophysical and structural methods, and computational approaches such as docking, molecular dyn

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Medicinal Chemistry

Explore how molecular structures, drug targets, and structure–activity relationships guide the development of medicines across major therapeutic classes.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The Secrets of Medicine

The course has elaborately designed the contents of four topics, such as "drug - the art of delivering molecules into the human body" , "drug discovery" , "drug design" , "drug and life" , etc. , and is suitable for people who are interested in medical s…

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

NPTEL;  IIT Madras

Bioinformatics- Algorithms and Applications

2 ratings

In this course, we aim to give a walkthrough of the major aspects of bioinformatics such as the development of databases, computationally derived hypothesis, algorithms, and computer-aided drug design.

• YouTube
• 1 day 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

IIT Madras;  NPTEL

Computer Aided Drug Design

2 ratings

Explore computer-aided drug design through structure- and target-based methods, molecular modeling, QSAR, docking, and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic analysis.

• Swayam
• 8 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

AI Engineer

LLM Scientific Reasoning - How to Make AI Capable of Nobel Prize Discoveries

Explore how LLMs can achieve Nobel Prize-level scientific breakthroughs by connecting distant fields, using RAG systems and AI agents to spot novel relationships in complex research.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MolSoft Molecules in Silico

Structure-Based Virtual Ligand Screening with ICM-Pro

2 ratings

Master structure-based virtual ligand screening techniques using ICM-Pro software, from project setup and file preparation to running screens, analyzing results, and creating hitlists.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Manolis Kellis

Introduction to Drug Development - Lecture 13

1 rating

Explore the fundamentals of drug development, from initial research through clinical trials and regulatory approval processes in this comprehensive pharmaceutical sciences overview.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Open Data Science

Coronavirus - Through The Lens Of AI

Explores how AI supports COVID-19 research through CT-based pneumonia detection, literature search, and generative drug design.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Materials Cloud

Methods for Computational Biology and Drug Discovery

Explore fundamental computational methods in physics and chemistry, presented by their creators, with insights into their development and applications.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Toronto Machine Learning Series (TMLS)

AI-Aided Design of Novel Inhibitors Against SARS-CoV-2

Explore AI-driven drug design for SARS-CoV-2, focusing on 3CLpro inhibitors. Learn about deep Q-learning networks, fragment-based design, and structure-based optimization for developing potential lead compounds.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video