Drug Development Team

Download as pdf or txt
Download as pdf or txt
You are on page 1of 2

Drug Development Team

These are the team or group of research associates that are involved in
the development of a drug product. The areas in which they are
associated involves from lead drug molecule discovery to marketing of
drug product

The drug development team is classified based on their function as


follows:

1. Drug discovery project team:


2. Manufacturing Team (Formulation Development team)
2. Preclinical drug development project team:
3. Clinical drug development project team:
4. Drug Regulatory affairs Team
5. Marketing team (post-marketing and pre-marketing):

1. Drug discovery project team:

The primary responsibility of this group is to identify lead drug


compounds. They include research people such as synthetic chemists,
therapeutic disease specialists, pharmacologists or biologists etc. who
have knowledge regarding cardiovascular, CNS, cancer, infectious
diseases, metabolic diseases etc. Once a lead drug molecule has been
identified, the discovery further proceeds further with bioanalytical
chemists, pharmacokinetics, and toxicology experts etc.

2. Manufacturing Team (Formulation Development team):

This team consist of formulation scientists who develop the dosage


form. They concurrently work with various other teams, during
nonclinical and clinical drug development team. Their function includes
preformulation studies, dosage form development, stability studies,
pilot plant and scale-up process, validation, regulatory documentation,
packaging, and labeling requirement according to GLP or GMP
guidelines.
3. Preclinical drug development project team:

The responsibility of this group is to establish the preclinical


development of a lead drug molecule. These include a project team
leader and coordinator, QA professionals, clinical trial team, analytical
chemists, manufacturing and marketing analysts. One of the final
responsibilities of the preclinical drug development project team is to
conduct animal studies and generate pharmacological, toxicological,
safety data and then prepare an IND and to the FDA or other regulatory
agencies.

As the development of the drug candidate moves into the clinic, the
preclinical project team becomes a clinical project team.

4. Clinical drug development project team:

After the IND is submitted the project team is again expanded to include
physicians, clinical research associates, drug product production, QA,
statisticians, clinical pharmacokinetics, regulatory team medical
monitors, marketing team. They conduct clinical studies in humans
and generate pharmacological, toxicological, safety data required for
approval process. The study in conducted in various phases like Phase
I, II, III etc.

5. Drug Regulatory affairs Team

They take care of regulatory requirements with regulatory bodies. They


file IND, NDA, ANDA etc

4. Marketing team (post-marketing and pre-marketing):

This team looks for market potential of drug and design for better sale
strategies. Further, Phase IV studies (Post marketing Surveillance) are
undertaken after marketing where new indications, new ADR, long-term
safety are monitored.

*************************[email protected]*************************

You might also like