Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 302 . This course is designed to expose undergraduate chemistry, biology and pre-medicine majors to the history, theory and practice of medicinal chemistry. The course will emphasize a combination of fundamentals and applications of drug design. In particular, the molecular aspects of drug action will be discussed. Special emphasis will also be placed on the methods used by medicinal chemists to design new drugs. Crosslisted as: CHEM 310 .