Principles of Drug Discovery and Drug Development

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Pre -requisites: FARM 7166, FARM 7206, FARM 7105, FARM 7116, FARM 7135, FARM 7117. This elective course focuses on the fundamental aspects and current methodologies involved in the discovery and drug development process. The fundamental aspects include the physicochemical and pharmaceutical properties of drugs. The methodologies include drug discovery strategies, molecular modeling methods, structural optimization, and therapeutic methods for drug development. This course will allow the student to integrate and implement fundamentals of chemistry in design of molecules with biological act ivity. Likewise, the drug discovery and development pathway will be followed through the identification of a disease, the selection of biological targets, and identification of a compound for a potential development. Instructional strategies include explor ation, conceptualization and implementation (ECA) and case -based learning.