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The Science and Business of Biotechnology

Overview

This course focuses on early-stage biotechnology companies, with particular emphasis on understanding the underlying science, technology, and disease targets'together with the application of novel business structures and financing methods'to facilitate drug discovery, clinical development, and greater patient access to new but potentially high-cost therapies.

Skills you'll practise

BiologyBusiness & ManagementFinance & AccountingScience & Math

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • Taught by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the strongest names in its field.
  • Completely free.
  • Self-paced: start any time.

Disadvantages

  • No certificate.
  • A big commitment: about 16 weeks, 6 hours/week in all.

Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.

Free to learn

  • Free: All the materials are free to use, with no sign-up. MIT OpenCourseWare gives no certificate.

Taught by

  • Andrew W. Lo
  • Harvey F. Lodish
  • Zied Ben Chaouch

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in Tier 1: world-leading universities and India's top institutes of our institution ranking (98/100). OpenCourseWare is the gold standard for free university material.

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