PIPMG offers a range of ready-to-go training programs on topics of general interest to the life science sector. We provide expert trainers with long experience in our sector, delivering highly interactive, topical courses.

These are available should your organisation be marketing to pharmaceutical, biotech, CRO or other life science organisations.

NOTE – PIPMG does not market public courses for individual enrolment.

More detail

Please click on any of the titles below for some more information and options. If you wish, you are more than welcome to discuss a combination of these topics if you see a particular need in the market. Contact Us to discuss further.

Effective R&D Project Management

Advanced Planning for Project Managers

Basics of Portfolio Management

Leading and Motivating a Project team

Decision Making in Projects

Effective Partnerships and Alliances

Fundamentals of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Trends in Pharmaceuticals

Introduction to Diagnostics

Effective R&D Project Management

Summary of Content

Equipping participants with the tools, techniques, and methodologies to manage biopharma projects across the drug development lifecycle.

The course explains the main stages and key tools used in cross-functional development projects. It clarifies the particular style and challenges of project management in the life science sector and develops skills both in process management and people leadership

Optimum duration

The course is typically run over two days. It can be delivered as a shorter version on request.

Advanced Planning for Project Managers

Summary of Content

Focused training on building plans for pre-IND Research, Clinical Development, and Commercialization, including standard cross-functional activities and risks to consider when building and assessing a plan.

Optimum duration

The course runs for one day.

Basics of Portfolio Management

Summary of Content

Considering the business side of drug development, this training will provide project managers with an understanding of the elements used to create product valuations and assessment of various project portfolios to derive the optimal set of projects for an organization.

Ideal duration

The course runs for one full day.

Leading and Motivating a Project Team

Summary of Content

This course helps new and existing project managers to make an impact with a cross-functional team, in the typical situation where they are not the expert in everything and do not have direct authority over team members.

It will focus on the best ways get team members to play their full part in a project, fashion a proactive and collaborative team. Also how to get the best performance from people who may feel overworked and their efforts divided between more than one project. It will help PMs to deal with performance problems and overcome conflicts. participants will be able to self-analyze in a safe environment and share their own particular challenges.

Ideal duration

The course runs for 1.5 days.

Decision Making in Projects

Summary of Content

The course will explain the various ways that significant decision are made in the life science sector and review the challenges of complexity and potential bias.

It will introduce frameworks to help project teams analyse situations, such as potentially costly risk mitigations, potential changes to projects – in order to present tight, well rationalised recommendations to governance levels.

Ideal duration

The course runs for one day. It is suitable for delivery in person or as a series of online sessions. It is particularly useful for intact project teams to attend together.

Effective Partnerships and Alliances

Summary of Content

The course will explain the typical challenges to successful partnership working across our sector – both in alliance and CRO/CMO situations. Exploration of benefits with potential partners, contracting, kicking off a partnership and building trust, governance structures and developing a collaborative execution of projects. Optimised communication and overcoming conflict.

Optimum duration

The course is ideally run over two days. It can be delivered as a shorter version on request.

Fundamentals of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Summary of content

The course will generate an understanding of the end to end drug development process. From early and innovative research, through preclinical, clinical development, regulatory approvals, manufacturing and supply, marketing and global access. Key jargon throughout and science concepts are explained in clear terms.

Optimum duration

A two day course, but it can feature an extract section of the process in a shorter time. The course is also suitable for delivery over several online modules.

Trends in Pharmaceuticals

Summary of content

This short course explains latest developments in our sector, including new innovations in disease research and treatment; how AI is transforming research; how patient-inclusive demands are reshaping clinical trials; how massive data sets will shape future developments.

Optimum duration

Run over a short day, or as an online session.

Introduction to Diagnostics

Summary of content

This course explains the medical diagnostics world that is ever-more interfacing with pharmaceuticals. Basic diagnostic technologies; leading edge techniques that identify for personalised therapies; How AI is helping overworked healthcare specialists; proliferation of medical sensors providing 24-hour data; the business of diagnostics and worldwide spread of infrastructure.

Optimum duration

The course is run over 1 day. it can also run over several online sessions.