Pharmaceutical Science
PHSC 5450: Contemporary Approaches to Drug Design
Lecture - 3 credits
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- Introduces current and emerging trends and concepts in drug discovery in the context of targeted disease therapy and structure-based drug design.
- Reviews and discusses topics on target selection and validation, computational drug design tools, kinase inhibitors, proteolysis targeting chimeras and molecular glues, covalent drugs, cannabinoid receptors, RNA-targeting small molecule agents, and protein-protein interaction modulators.
- Exemplifies the applications of general medicinal chemistry and pharmacology principles to real-world drug discovery and development.
Introduces current and emerging trends and concepts in drug discovery in the context of targeted disease therapy and structure-based drug design. Show more.