Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1

Introduction From Discovery to Market: An Integrated View

Instructors: Charles L. Cooney, Ph. D

  
2

Brief Economic History of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Instructors: Stan N. Finkelstein, M. D

  
3

The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Drug Development Process; Basic Science

Instructors: Anthony J. Sinskey, Sc. D.

  
4

Business of Biopharmaceuticals

Guest Lecturer: Robert Mulroy, M. P. P. M., Director, President & CEO,
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals

Guest Lecturer: Sumit Khedekar, Director, Global Healthcare Group,
Bank of America, Merrill Lynch

 
5 Accelerating Cancer Cures: A Global Frontier

Guest Lecturer: Jason Sager, M. D., Head of Early Development Oncology Portfolio,
Sanofi

Guest Lecturer: Christoph Lengauer, Ph. D., MBA, Chief Scientific Officer,
Blueprint Medicines

  
6 Clinical Drug Development

Guest Lecturer: Clet Niyikiza, Ph. D., Executive Vice President,
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals

 Project outline / proposal due
7 Drug Delivery Systems

Guest Lecturer: Luís Almeida, Ph. D., Professor,
João Nuno Moreira, Ph. D., Professor,
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy,
University of Coimbra, Portugal

  
8

Regulation

Instructors: Stan N. Finkelstein, M. D.

Emerging Pharmaceutical Science and Technology I

Guest Lecturer: Brock Reeve, MPhil, MBA, Executive Director,
Harvard Stem Cell Institute

  
9 Manufacturing I

Instructors: Charles L. Cooney, Ph. D.
G. K. Raju, Ph. D.

  
10 Reimbursement

Instructors: Stan N. Finkelstein, M. D.

Emerging Pharmaceutical Science and Technology II

Guest Lecturer: Lee L. Rubin, Ph. D., Professor,
Regenerative Medicine, Harvard

  
11 Manufacturing II

Instructors: Charles L. Cooney, Ph. D.
G. K. Raju, Ph. D.

Guest Lecturer: Ajaz Hussain, Ph. D., Principal,
Insight, Advice & Solutions, LLC

 Progress report due
12 Manufacturing III

Instructors: Charles L. Cooney, Ph. D.
G. K. Raju, Ph. D.

  
13 Student Presentations  
14 Final Class Final Paper due