This course will provide the students with the theoretical and practical research skills needed for their research program. The academic staff members will transfer their research experience skills to the students with practical examples of actual research cases. Research skills include text books and encyclopaedias readings, literature analysis and retrieval methodologies and tools focusing on electronic data bases such as scopus, pubmed, scifinder, elsiver, web of knowledge, science citation index, etc.  Students will be also provided with all the necessary information to understand the ideality of research problem solving and literature gaps applying all these techniques. The course shall also include academic skills required for proposal writing specially those needed for projects and research grants. Other essential writing skills offered are oral presenters, poster preparations, article and review writing. The practical part shall expose the students to the experience of transformation of raw data into scientific form such as dissertation, abstract, short paper and full manuscript, with real examples related to different fields of pharmaceutical research.