Overview course in Cancer Drug Discovery

Third-cycle level | 1.5 credits (HEC) | Course code: K7F5541
HT 2025
Study period: 2025-10-20 - 2025-10-24
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2025-04-15 - 2025-05-06
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Course description

This is an exciting 5 day course designed to introduce and familiarize student with the steps, methods and approaches applied in drug discovery and development with focus on oncology. Through lectures, site vites and interactive workshops student will learn about current drug discovery techniques from screening for hit compounds through lead optimization. Aspects of clinical testing and precision medcine will also be addressed.

More specifically topics such as drug screening, drug library design and logistics, disease models, drug development, medicinal chemistry, image analysis, chemoinformatics, precision medicine, mechanism-of-action and clinical trials will be introduced by scientists from academia, research infrastructure and industry. The students will also participate in group-based learning projects to design their own screening strategies. For specicific information on intended learning outcomes please see the syllabus.

This course is given in collaboration with the Master's Programme in Biomedicine.

Prerequisites and Selection

Prerequisite courses, or equivalent

Students must have aquired a basic understanding of cancer biology, for example by having participated in the Basic course in tumor biology and oncology or equivalent.

Selection

Selection will be based on:  
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s individual study plan/research (according to written motivation). 
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date). 

 

Course director

Brinton Seashore-Ludlow and Tom Erkers

Course syllabus

K7F5541

Department

Department of Oncology-Pathology

Doctoral programme

Tumour Biology and Oncology (FoTO)

Type of course

**Other course

Keywords

Drug Discovery

CONTACTBrinton Seashore-Ludlow

brinton.seashore-ludlow@ki.se