Master of Advanced Studies MAS in Drug Development Sciences (MDDS)

Organisation:: Universität Basel
Ort, Bundesland, Land:: Basel, Northwest, Switzerland
Typ:: Full-time
Certificate:: MAS
Duration:: 4 Semester/s

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Programme

Our mission is to provide a training platform to enhance the knowledge, expertise and skills needed to perform modern discovery, development and regulation of medical products. The new MDDS programme emphasis integrated drug development which is science-based, efficient, economical, high quality and rapid - leading to better and safer medical products for patients.

The MDDS programme is an European University training programme following the rules of the Bologna system. The training blocks are built in a modular way to be completed while working in the health care environment. It is designed and organised by ECPM, European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine, together with universitiy and other partners involved in the health care system.

Dr. Annette Mollet
Head of the program

Target audience

The MDDS programme is targeted at representatives from pharmaceutical industry, clinical research organisations, academic and government decision- and policy-makers who already have a good grounding in the basics and will benefit from a more in-depth, comprehensive and systematic immersion into modern medical product development, regulation and market introduction.

Applicants must have a higher university degree, such as Master, MD, PharmD or PhD and a primary interest in medical product discovery, development, regulation or related activity. The programme is particularly aimed at professionals who are involved in the medical product development process and have at least 2 years of working experience.

Emphases/Curriculum

Module 1
Global Drug Development and Pharmaceutical Business Environment:
Principles and organisation of global pharmaceutical research and development.

Module 2
From Preclinical Testing to Proof of Concept in Humans:
Prioritising areas of therapeutic interest and target product profile.

Module 3
Learning and Confirming Trials: Finding and Confirming the Right Dose:
The planning, the choice of different trial designs, the randomisation modes and the choice of endpoints are discussed.

Module 4
Confirming Trials: Methodology and Biostatistics:
The different tests and methods of biostatistics are discussed.

Module 5
The Global Registration and Market Approval Process:
Overview on mechanisms and regulatory management systems in Europe, the USA and Asia.

Module 6
Integrated Product Development, Portfolio Management and Marketing:
Principles of project and portfolio management, including aspects of planning, project evaluation and decision making.

Final Examination

Practical relevance

The learning process of the course includes didactic teaching and places a great emphasis on interactive participation. Each module includes the following activities:

Lectures
Case Studies where participants work in small interdisciplinary teams on ‘real-life cases’. Problems are analysed and discussed together with faculty members.
Mini Case Studies
Seminars
Multimedia Technology
Interactive learning: e-learning
Self-assessment

Admission/Entrance requirements

Total fees approx.:	32.000,-

Tuition Fees: The fee is composed of the: ECPM Course (CHF 12.500,-), the compulsory modules and the master thesis (CHF 19.500,-) Application Requirements: Applicants must have a higher university degree, such as Master, MD, PharmD or PhD and at least 2 years of working experience.

Languages
Language(s) of instruction:	English
Going abroad:	not possible

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Organisation

ECPM collaborates with the Center for Drug Development Science, CDDS, at the Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Pharmacology, Washington, DC, which was founded in September 1994 by Prof. Carl C. Peck.

The center's focus is on the investigation of clinical trial designs and data analysis, bio-pharmaceutical, pharmacometric and science management techniques applied to clinical phases of drug development. ECPM and CDDS share members of the Science Boards, have joint programmes and exchange of expertise in education and special techniques.

ECPM formed another alliance with the Center for Drug Research, LACDR, in NL-Leiden in 1997 in collaboration with Prof. Douwe D. Breimer and Prof. Adam Cohen. Several workshops have been co-organised.

Study in Basel

Basel beats differently is the motto with which Basel wants to draw attention to itself at home and abroad.

Special to Basel in fact different is its position in the so-called Dreiländereck, the triangle formed by the three countries of Switzerland, Germany, and France. Basel is known as an open, many-faceted cultural, educational, and economic metropolis.
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