This 30-hour Foundation Certificate Course introduces students to the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the drug development lifecycle – from discovery through clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and career pathways. ?To familiarize students with foundational AI/ML concepts relevant to the pharmaceutical and drug development sector. ?To build applied understanding of AI tools used in drug discovery, clinical research, and pharmacovigilance. ?To strengthen awareness of AI-enabled career pathways and entrepreneurship opportunities in pharma. ?To provide hands-on exposure to representative AI/data-analytics tools through guided activities. ?To orient students to the regulatory, ethical, and global certification landscape surrounding AI in healthcare.
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?Evolution of AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI and Agentic AI – basic concepts ?Digitalization, e-commerce and AI in the pharmaceutical industry ?Emerging technologies: Robotic Pharmacy, Electronic Health Records Advance AI Techlology in Health Sciences: Quantum AI-Google Willow Chip, Google Alpha Fold, NeuraLink (Brain-Chip Interface), NVIDEA Bio-Nemo Project
?AI Impact on Drug Discovery Pipelines ?AI-assisted target identification and validation: Case studies: AI Startups and Drug Discovery Pipelines
?Clinical trial phases (I–IV), GCP (ICH-E6) and informed consent essentials, as context for AI applications ?Real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) analytics Regulatory perspective: CDSCO New Drugs & Clinical Trials Rules 2019 and ICH-GCP 2025
?Pharmacovigilance fundamentals recap: ADR/ADE classification, ?ICSR life cycle, and MedDRA coding, VIGIBASE Software overview ?Causality assessment approaches (WHO-UMC scale, Naranjo algorithm) and where AI-assisted triage fits in Regulatory reporting perspective: CDSCO PvPI, EudraVigilance, and US-MEDWATCH, WHO Global Survellience, CIOMS
?Emerging AI-linked career roles: Medical Information associate, Medical coder and Medical Scribing, Drug Safety associate, clinical data analyst, HEOR ?Entrepreneurship opportunities in AI-driven pharma, nutraceutical, and cosmeceutical start-ups ?Access to capital: hackathons, national/international scholarships, incubation support ?Activity: Preparation of a ‘Dream Company/Role’ profile aligned to AI-pharma careers Activity: AI-assisted CV/resume creation highlighting AI-drug-development skills
?Overview of regulatory perspectives on AI in drug development (CDSCO, USFDA, EMA – conceptual level) ?Ethical considerations: data privacy Law DPDC ACT 2023, accountability in clinical and pharmacovigilance data use Global certification and MOOC pathways in AI for healthcare/pharma (building on existing certification-landscape orientation)
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Working as Professor, Dept of Pharmacology/Pharmacy Practice, with more than 15 years of experience in Clinical Research/Biomedical Ethics/Evidence-based medicine, Antibiotic Stewardship program, pharmacovigilance, Drug Safety, Clinical trials, and outcome research. Dr Kanav Khera is also associate member secretory of Institutional ethics committee at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, LPU. Dr Kanav Khera had vast experience in providing Pharmaceutical care services in Tertiary care hospitals and handling medication errors and related problems. Had published more than 35 research papers in National and international journals and was invited as a guest speaker at various events.