Medicinal Chemistry. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

Prerequisite: CHE 3643 or equivalent or consent of instructor. The course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of how medicinal chemistry impacts the overall drug discovery process, with an underlying emphasis on the role organic chemistry concepts and theory play. The course will highlight and teach how concepts within medicinal chemistry interplay with other disciplines, such as computational chemistry, pharmacology, drug metabolism, and toxicology. Students will learn how medicinal chemistry plays a role in each level of the drug discovery process and how structural changes in a molecule impact multiple factors besides activity at a given pharmacological target. Students will also learn contemporary drug discovery research platforms such as PROTACs (Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras), covalent drug discovery approaches, and fragment-based drug discovery approaches. (Formerly titled Pharmaceutical Chemistry.) This course has Differential Tuition. Course Fee: GS01 $90.