Intro Drug Discovery & Dev

Catalog description

This undergraduate course allows students to gain insight into the process of drug discovery and development. By interacting with different experts in the field of drug discovery and development, students will learn about the steps to drug discovery including new target identification, selection and validation, screening of potential candidates, understanding the formulation process, packaging and delivery of new drugs, and finally being exposed to the important regulatory aspects of the drug discovery process and how it applies to taking novel discoveries to clinics and patients. This course also introduces basic concepts of medicinal chemistry as applied to drug discovery.