Medicinal Chemistry

Catalog description

A Medicinal Chemistry course in which you will learn about the application of chemistry to the discovery, design and synthesis of new drugs. Medicinal chemistry is an interdisciplinary science. Its successful application to new drug discovery and development involves knowledge of organic chemistry, biology, physiology, microbiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and medicine among others. Topics that will be covered in this course include: structure and function of biological targets (proteins, enzymes, receptors and DNA/RNA); sources of new drugs from nature or synthesis; methods used to identify relevant structural features for biological activity; fate of a drug in the body and interaction with its biological target (pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics); strategies for drug design and case studies.