Seminar Pharmaceutical Science

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Through this interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar led by faculty with expertise in pharmacology, toxicology, formulation and drug development, students will acquire experience using advanced AI search engine to select reliable literature and gain experience in reading and critically thinking and presenting a selected scientific publication to an engaged audience. Students will be trained on how to generate scientific presentations outline to build a scientific presentation, and use special software to generate graphical supporting working model that summarizes data, discussion and conclusions of the study in the field of Drug Discovery and Development and Cell gene therapy. The selected high impact scientific literature will include topics related to novel technologies related to drug development, cell and gene therapies, formulation as well as pharmacology and medicinal chemistry focused studies. Through this course students will understand how the scientific field moves forward one publication at a time by taking the audience through the journey of the scientific discoveries of the authors.