Turning a basic research idea into a medicine development project (2025)
Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology at Aalborg University
Welcome to Turning a basic research idea into a medicine development project (2025)
Program: B ***mandatory course **** (also relevant for CPM, CSLTM)
Description:
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 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
Key literature: TBD
Organizer: Associate Professor John Dirk Vestergaard Nieland, email: jdn@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: TBA
ECTS: 5.0
Time: 5, 6, 26 May 2025, 08.15-16.15
Place: Aalborg University, Selma Lagerløfs Vej 249, 9260 Gistrup
Rooms: 5 and 6 May: 11.00.033; 26 May: 14.01.003
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 11 April 2025