Objectives

To cover the entire medical product lifecycle – from molecule to the marketplace.
To enable application of innovative methods, tools and strategies that best utilise recent scientific advances and technologies to medical and biomedical product design, development and regulatory review.
To stimulate an insight into pitfalls and possibilities of drug research and development.
To address real world challenges encountered during the development, manufacture, review and commercialisation of a medicinal product.
To train the leaders and integrators for medical product development.
To understand future directions in global pharmaceutical and health economics and business environments, and implications for product development and evaluation.
To provide university, regulatory and industry professionals with a platform and network for the discussion of central issues concerning medicines development and new therapies.
To offer the possibility to obtain a postgraduate Master in Drug Development Sciences MDDS at the University of Basel both for physicians as well as all other pharmaceutical professionals concerned with the development of medicines from molecule to market place.