Drug Discovery and Development Short Course Outline

Introduction 

•	Purpose and Goals
•	Drug Discovery and Development Logic Plans
•	Overview on Regulatory Agency Submissions
•	Meetings with Regulatory Agencies

Drug Discovery and Developability Assessment

•	Drug Discovery Aspects
>	Target Identification
>	In Vitro Pharmacology Screen
>	Discovery Lead Generation
>	‘Leads’ to ‘Hits’
>	Structural Activity Relationships
>	In Vivo Pharmacology Screen
•	Developability Assessment Overview
>	Scientific Disciplines Involved
>	Logic Plan for Discovery Lead Selection

Early Formulation Evaluations

•	Analytical Chemistry Method Development and Characterization
•	Early Formulation Definition and Assessments
•	Stability and Solubility Requirements

Preclinical/Nonclincal Drug Development or CTD Safety

•	Safety Pharmacology
•	Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism
•	Toxicology 
>	Acute, Subchronic, Chronic
>	Genotoxicity
>	Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology
>	Carcinogenicity
>	Special Toxicology Studies

Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC) or CTD Quality

Drug Substance Characterization and Development
Drug Product Characterization and Development

Clinical Drug Development or CTD Efficacy

•	First-in-Human Clinical Trial Protocol and Investigator’s Brochure
•	Human Pharmacology (Phase 1)
•	Therapeutic Exploratory (Phase 2)
•	Therapeutic Confirmation (Phase 3)
•	Therapeutic Use (Phase 4)

Marketing Application Submission

•	CTD Overview
•	CTD Overviews and Summaries in Module 2
•	Module 3 (Quality), Module 4 (Nonclinical Study Reports), Module 5 (Clinical Study Reports)

Summary and Conclusions

Workshop to Design and Discuss Participant Prepared Drug Development Logic Plans