Quality Assurance : GMP, GCP, GLP and Auditing [MSBMM108]

Learning outcomes

All the aspects of Quality Assurance in the development and life cycle of drugs are reviewed.

Objectives

The students will have a clear overview of the different GxP Quality systems, and other international standards in the field of drug development. Through exercises and examples they will understand the utility of quality systems and how they must be applied to improve quality of operations an organization and to fulfill regulatory requirements.

Content

As an introduction, the principles of quality assurance in the field of healthcare and drug development are depicted. Then, the international standard ISO17025 is reviewed in details to give a complete overview of a quality system with organizational and technical requirements.

The next chapters cover the different GxP standards:

-GLP (good laboratory practices) for the pre-clinical studies

-GCP (good clinical practices) and GCLP (good clinical laboratory practices) for the clinical studies

-GMP (good manufacturing practices and GDP (good distribution practices) for drug production and distribution)

Finally, a chapter is dedicated to the concept of validation in the broad sense of the term, to cover all the topics concerned by qualification or validation needs (equipment, process, methods, IT systems….)

Table of contents

Chapitre 1 : Introduction to quality assurance

Chapitre v2 : ISO17025

Chapitre 3 : GLP

Chapitre 4 : GCP/GCLP/ISO15189/CLIA

Chapitre 5 : GMP/GDP

Chapitre 6 : validations

Exercises description

Practice of GXP activities
Presentation by students of document analysis