On-Demand Course Information

Once payment has been made you will be sent joining instructions to the Educo Life Sciences Training Portal. On here you will have access to all the learning materials for 2 months. The course consists of 22 short interactive modules (bullet points below) which are categorised into four sections.

Section 1

Introduction and Overview

• Introduction to the course
• High level overview of the industry

Section 2

Research and discovery of new treatments

• Basics of the human body
• Infectious diseases
• Cancers
• Neurological diseases
• How do drugs work?
• How do drugs work?
• Disease, targets and biomarkers
• Discovery of new drug treatments
• Patenting our new inventions

Section 3

Development of products of value

• Developing small molecule process
• Developing large molecule process
• Developing drug presentations
• Assessing safety of new drugs
• Early clinical trials
• Major clinical trials and regulation
• Set up of manufacturing

Section 4

Commercialisation and access for patients worldwide

• Making the industry more patient inclusive
• Branding new products
• Launching products globally
• Challenges to patient access
• The outlook for the industry

John Faulkes began his career as a scientist in the medical diagnostics subsidiary of the Wellcome Foundation (now GSK). He moved after some years to a new career in training/HR, first as a trainer and eventually as a Learning and Development Business Partner. He left to become a consultant in the 1990’s, working as a freelancer running team building sessions, personal skills courses and doing instructional design and coordination.

In 2001 he co-founded PPLMD Ltd, which specialises in enhancing collaborative working in the Pharma, Biotech and related service industries. John focuses on three aspects of this: Firstly, an educational program: ‘Molecules to Markets’ that helps companies to build their functions’ mutual knowledge of how the Pharma business operates. This program has been delivered for large and small organisations globally and has continually developed as changes both to the external healthcare world and medicinal technology have evolved.

Secondly, enhancing Project Management – providing consulting, team / leader coaching and basic project management training, particularly for the Biotech sector.

Thirdly, Partnering – helping Pharma companies to manage Alliances more effectively, and Pharma Outsourcing functions to develop better ways to manage relationships with CROs, in terms of enhancing the start-up, establishing rigorous processes and developing increased collaboration and trust.