Industrial Medicinal Chemistry Lab

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This course is designed to build upon synthetic organic chemistry lab skills in the context of medicinal chemistry, specifically drug development. Students will learn how the pharmaceutical industry approaches the design, synthesis, and testing of drug targets. This knowledge will be applied as students propose and design novel drug targets. The syntheses of these drug targets will be carried out and optimized. The targets will be tested via the appropriate studies and assays to study the targets¿ properties and bioactivities. Students will have regular interactions with an industrial medicinal chemist to report on their work progress. An electronic notebook will allow for collaborative work and remote feedback from the industrial chemist. The semester culminates with a tour to a pharmaceutical company where students present their semester work in a poster session to scientists at the company.