Experimental Therapeutics

MSc in Experimental Therapeutics (part-time)

Course Code | 003801

The Clinical Pharmacology Division and the Department for Continuing Education’s CPD Centre offer a part-time two-year taught MSc in Experimental Therapeutics.

Taught by leading clinicians and scientists, the programme aims to provide students with the necessary training and practical experience to enable them to understand the principles that underpin clinical research, and to enable them to translate that understanding into good clinical and research practice.

The flexible, modular structure of the part-time programme has been devised to suit busy professionals in full-time employment and the elective modules give scope for student choice.

Six compulsory modules cover:

• The structure of clinical trials and experimental therapeutics
• Drug development, pharmokinetic and imaging
• Pharmacodynamics, biomarkers and personalised therapy
• Adverse drug reactions, drug interactions and pharmacovigilance
• How to conduct research on therapeutic interventions
• Biological therapeutics

Each module includes access to online resources as well as one week of intensive face-to-face teaching in Oxford. In addition, participants will produce a research dissertation based on a work-related project.

University libraries, including:

• Rewley House Continuing Education Library
• Radcliffe Science Library

Other resources, including:

• A virtual learning environment 

Professor Leonard Seymour

• Professor of Gene Therapies
• Director of Clinical Pharmacology Division, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford
• General Secretary of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

Dr Jeffrey K. Aronson

• Reader in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Oxford
• Honorary Consultant Physician in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust

Dr Elaine Johnstone

Senior Research Fellow, Translational Oncology Research Group, Clinical Pharmacology Division, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford

Dr Stefan Knapp

Principal Investigator, Phosphorylation Dependent Signalling Group, Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford

Dr Rachel Midgley

Clinical Director, Oncology Clinical Trials Office, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford

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