The course will permit students to learn the best practice of initiating and building a pharmaceutical start-up company from the ground up. It will be taught...

Initiating a Pharmaceutical Start-Up (PHAY0030)

The course will permit students to learn the best practice of initiating and building a pharmaceutical start-up company from the ground up. It will be taught by members of academic staff from the UCL School of Pharmacy who have direct experience of doing so (Profs Basit, Brocchini, Buckton, Uchegbu; Dr Gaisford), complemented with industry speakers from SMEs. Issue around generating the idea/concept for the business, developing a sound business case to raise finance, and the key resources (staff and otherwise) that need to be in place will be considered in depth. Methods to cultivate contacts both to initiate and grow the business will be discussed, as will intellectual property aspects and common pitfalls.

 List of lectures:

  Introduction into initiating a pharmaceutical start-up
 
  Spin-out vs. licensing
 
  Partnering
 
  Digital health
 
  Intellectual property
 
  Funding your business

 *The module also includes small group coaching for partnering assignment.

PREDICTING PROTEIN STRUCTURE|HOMOLOGY MODELLING|MOLECULAR DOCKING|COMPUTER-AIDED MODELLING

The module will focus on the current methods in the computer aided drug design. Advanced modelling of drug/receptor interactions will be covered in detail,...

Advanced Structure-Based Drug Design (PHAY0022)

The module will focus on the current methods in the computer aided drug design. Advanced modelling of drug/receptor interactions will be covered in detail, including predicting protein structure, homology modelling and molecular docking. Other topics will be selected from: conformational sampling, fragment based drug design, receptor-based de novo design and ligand-based drug design. This module uses the medium of considerable hands-on experience of advanced techniques and software in computer-aided modelling. Students will gain a more complete understanding of the drug design process.