R&D - Pharma
Welcome to the R&D - Pharma job-specific curriculum page. You will find each class listed below with the Learning Objectives, Instructor and link to the Course Content: video, slides, note-taking worksheets. You will find that we teach the “how” and “why” of what we do in our industry. As you listen to the classes, we invite you to always take a step back and reflect on how the information connects to the total product lifecycle. We often do that with and for you during the class, but your active reflection will enable you to implement your learnings. We hope you enjoy this program!
Important Note - Content:
This program gives the R&D Professional a holistic view of the studies needed for successful product approval. The program includes an understanding of commercial manufacturing challenges, when and how to engage suppliers, post-market surveillance, and miscellaneous topics that help the R&D Professional lead successful product development.
Certificate of Completion?
To earn a Certificate of Completion:
Watch the videos on this page
Use the note-taking worksheets available in each class
Click the "Take the Certificate of Completion Quiz" button
Complete quizzes related to each video
You'll have multiple attempts to pass each quiz if needed—our goal is for you to learn, not to be penalized. Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a Certificate of Completion.
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Novice: 22 Classes. ~8.8 Hours [.88 CEU]
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Exposure to the overall drug development process
2. Understand the criticality of studying formulation and process
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Exposure to the role and function of various excipients
2. Overview of typical manufacturing process steps
3. Understand how to develop the process for the intended product function/needs
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the Quality Target Product Profile
2. Explain what “Design Space” is and why it is important to study/develop
3. Become familiar with what is “critical”
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Awareness of the terminology behind human subject research and privacy
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the criticality of a well-prepared clinical plan
2. Understand the goals of the different clinical trial phases
3. Understand the difference between a feasibility study and a pivotal study.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explain historical aspects of drug and device clinical trials
2. Introduction to regulatory authority oversight and guidance for clinical studies
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Examine the studies needed to support claims made on labels.
2. Understand the role of stability studies.
3. Realize the steps needed to counteract counterfeit
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of various types of validation: equipment, product and process.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Review of the various types of drug approval pathways depending on product type
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Review of the various types of drug approval pathways depending on product type
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Introduction to the product development lifecycle
2. Understand the intricacies of cross-functional alignment throughout development
3. Learn the criticality of risk identification, evaluation and mitigation
4. Exposure to the usefulness of the stage gate process
5. Understand the complexity of validating a process
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn where drug discovery starts
2. Understand how lead compounds are identified
3. Identify considerations for successful drug products
4. Key tools used in QbD
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the Quality Target Product Profile
2. Explain what “Quality by Design” is and why it is important to study/develop
3. Become familiar with what is “critical”
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the impact of material variability on the critical quality attributes of the final product
2. Become exposed to ways of assessing the criticality of material attributes
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the criticality of process design and development
2. Learn what scientists study to ensure the process will generate the intended
product (every time)
3. See how the QTPP, CQAs, CMAs and CPPs are put into action
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the criticality of process design and controls for successful product outcomes
2. Recognize the level of rigor that goes into developing the design space
3. Explore the process considerations for different product types
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Clinical Trial Design Strategies
2. Clinical phases
3. Clinical trial terminology
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what affects the expiration of your product.
2. Learn how to develop your product with stability in mind.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Delve into the impact of storage conditions.
2. Explore the challenges with transit conditions.
3. Understand the importance and role of packaging.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the criticality of technology and knowledge transfer
2. Exposure to validation through a tablet and IV product case studies
3. Understand how to handle failures during validation
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how to verify the validated state of the process on an ongoing basis
2. Learn how our R&D work has prepared us for commercial production
3. Understand how to use AQL sampling tables
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Why analytical methods need to be validated
2. The existence of pharmacopeial and non- pharmacopeial methods
3. Exposure on how to validate analytical methods
Intermediate: 11 Classes. ~5.2 Hours [.52 CEU]
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the impact of the supply chain on patient safety
2. Understand a Paradigm shifting view of supply chain failures
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to gain internal alignment on requirements of your suppliers that are important to you
2. Align on how well your suppliers meet your requirements
3. Understand the criticality of alignment prior to selecting a supplier and for on-going assessment of the supplier
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. How to align internally on supply chain criteria
2. How, when and why to engage the supplier
3. Understand the role and criticality of self-qualification
4. Understand the benefits of relationship risk mapping
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how clinical trial outcomes can be biased, misinterpreted, and not understood.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore a case study for design of a clinical trial.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of various types of validation: cleaning and computer systems.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Exposure to what manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry looks like
2. Introduction into the controls needed for consistent product outcomes.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Why perform stability studies
2. How to run a stability program
3. What constitutes a stability failure and how to report it
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1.Envision the total qualification process
2. Understand key aspects of Installation Qualification and Operational Qualification
3. Explore the qualification of an eye drop filler process
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the complexities of cleaning equipment
2. Exposure to different sampling techniques
3. Introduction to acceptance criteria
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Introduction to Media Fill Trials
2. Exposure to critical aspects involved in Media Fill Trials
3. Understand how to assess the outcome of Media Fill Trials
Advanced: 8 Classes. ~3.5 Hours [.35 CEU]
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the ways in which computer systems support operations and decision making
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what needs to be done to protect computerized data and information
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore examples of enforcement actions at various levels
2. Consider different perspectives in these activities
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the gap between clinical trial and real-world data
2. Identify passive and active data collection methods
3. Learn regulatory reporting requirements
4. Explore AI-powered surveillance techniques
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the significance of how change is managed using ICH Q12
2. Learn what Established Conditions are, and how they are linked to Quality by Design Studies
3. Review the filing outcomes of several scenarios
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand regulatory requirements for computer system validation (CSV)/ Computer Software Assurance (CSA)
2. Understand the process
Instructor: Marla Phillips
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how 3D printing is and can be used in the health care industry
2. Exposure to regulatory guideline approaches to keeping up with the pace of innovation
Instructor: Marla Phillips
Learning Objectives:
1. Development Journey: Looking at design controls through the lens of an epinephrine auto-injector story