3rd year | Semester 5
Biotechnologies

Drugs : from design to patient

Tags: drug design, Drugs, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical industries, therapeutic targets
Evaluation method:
Oral exam of 30 min.
Course outline:

This course aims to give a general background in modern medicinal chemistry at the interplay of chemistry and biology, to third year students in chemical engineering. The course / lectures will be given by actors of the academic or industrial world and will focus on drug design, describe the main therapeutic targets and main available drugs and their mode of action. Modern in silico methods will be presented together with the modern medicinal chemistry principles and applications.

Learning objectives:

After attending this session, the students will be able to grasp the challenges met when designing a new drug targeting a particular therapeutic target. They should be able to join a research team working in the general field of medicinal chemistry either in academics or in the industrial world.

Prerequisites: Fundamentals in organic chemistry and biochemistry (L2-L3 level).

Teaching language: FR

Documents:
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