Biopharmaceutical Foundation I

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Students in this course will connect concepts learned to real life application to human disease, pharmacology, and drug discovery. Biopharmaceutical foundations I lays a strong foundation to prepare students for subsequent and more advanced knowledge linked to the field of Drug Discovery and Development and provide a better understanding on how medicines work in the body. This course provides students with a introductory level understanding of structure, properties, biological functions, bioenergetics, and metabolic fate of macromolecules essential to life (i.e. proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids), the impact of molecular genetics on these processes.