Advanced Pharmacogenomics

Catalog description

GR This is a course designed for the Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics track in the Integrative Biosciences Ph.D program. The course is offered collaboratively between the Departments of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics in the College of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy. Lectures on clinical aspects will be presented by the College of Pharmacy faculty during their regularly offered PHSC 222 course and preclinical/basic science aspects will be presented by College of Medicine Faculty. Topics covered will include basic pharmacokinetics and pharmodymics, genetics of drug metabolizing enzymes, genetics of drug receptors, individual differences in targeted and nontargeted drug responses, cardiovascular, central nervous system and infectious disease pharmacology, and genetics of cancer treatment. The course content also includes ethical/legal and regulatory topics.