Professor Nicholas Barnes introduces the new Pharmaceutical Enterprise MSc/PG Diploma/PG Certificate which starts September 2013.
Duration: 02:48mins
Speaker
Nicholas Barnes, Professor of Neuropharmacology
Transcript
Hello, my name’s Nicholas Barnes, I am Professor of Neuropharmacology in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. I am also the principal founder of a company called [Selentex - 0:00:14]. [Selentex] is a pharmaceutical research and development company which is a spin-out from our academic research here in the Medical and Dental College.
I am also the programme director for the Masters in Pharmaceutical Enterprise. This new programme which starts in September 2013 has been developed by us because we’re recognising the pharmaceutical industry is changing Big pharma are no longer developing their own internal projects, or they’re moving away from that model, and what they’re looking for is small companies to develop new projects which the big companies will then come and cherry pick to feed their pipeline. We use a lot of external experts to come and deliver the teaching sessions to our students. This ensures that the teaching is at the cutting edge in this rapidly moving area.
The Pharmaceutical Enterprise programme is aimed at both life science and business graduates. Whichever sector the students come from, we offer support so they are up to speed with the relevant areas. The Pharmaceutical Enterprise programme covers a broad spectrum of subjects, starting off in drug discovery and development but also moving through the way projects are protected through patenting, corporate governance, how to set up a company, how to look at different models within the company, perhaps just a research model or a research and a service model. So we cover the whole spectrum of SME type activity in this space.
This programme delivers a broad toolbox of skills. This is very important to the SME community because sometimes you go into these SMEs, you’re not given a narrow focused project. You need to be able to impact your skills across the spectrum.
Birmingham University is a superb place to do this programme. We have an excellent track record in commercialising our academic research and placing it within the SME community. The programme offers great opportunities for our students. There’s a lot of interactions with pharmaceutical companies and obviously the interaction with the external experts coming in to deliver the teaching sessions. This gives our students a great network which they obviously take with them post graduation.
If you want more information, please look at the website, please email us, or we can have Skype discussion to discuss this further.
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