CMT667: Medicinal Chemistry / Faculty of Applied Sciences

This medicinal chemistry course is aimed at providing students some insight of processes involved drug design and discovery. This course explains the underlying connection between chemistry and pharmacology that is involved in design, development and interaction of drugs in the human body. It provide an understanding of current drug targets and how novel, pharmacologically active molecules are discovered and designed to cure diseases based on the modulation of these targets. This course will also cover on current trends in drug design that includes pharmacokinetic oriented and in-silico drug design.