PHAR 600 PRINCIPLES OF DRUG DISCOVERY

This interdisciplinary modular based course describes the inter-relationship among the disciplines of the pharmaceutical sciences, and establishes the basic theoretical background essential to the drug design and development process. A progression of pharmaceutical sciences content is presented and considers the drug discovery process, beginning with traditional drug design and optimization of drug structure, continuing with principles of pharmacology, including macromolecular structure, genomics, and proteomics, followed by modern drug discovery methods based on knowledge of the structure and pharmacology of target molecules.