1.1 Course Description
Medicinal chemistry course will provide structural and mechanistic concepts central to the study of drug action in a logical way. Emphasis is given to molecular and biochemical principles encompassing all major categories of drugs and all main types of human diseases. Topics include properties of drug molecules, characteristics of drug receptors, nature of drug-receptor interactions, drugs designed to target various families of receptors involved in human disease viz. endogenous molecules, macromolecules, cellular organelles, messengers, non messengers and exogenous pathogens; molecular modeling techniques, high throughput screening.
Medicinal chemistry course will provide structural and mechanistic concepts central to the study of drug action in a logical way. Emphasis is given to molecular and biochemical principles encompassing all major categories of drugs and all main types of human diseases. Topics include properties of drug molecules, characteristics of drug receptors, nature of drug-receptor interactions, drugs designed to target various families of receptors involved in human disease viz. endogenous molecules, macromolecules, cellular organelles, messengers, non messengers and exogenous pathogens; molecular modeling techniques, high throughput screening.
- Teacher: Ranjani Devi