REGS 614 DRUG DISCOVERY
Pharmaceutical sciences are fundamental to the discovery of new medicines and impact the clinical success in treating disease. This online course is designed to orient students from diverse professional backgrounds on the basics of drug/biologics discovery, drug/biologics chemistry and functional groups, medicinal chemistry approaches to optimizing drug action, principles of pharmacology, biological and target considerations in drug and biologics design, issues of drug resistance, and how drugs and biologics are metabolized and eliminated from the body.