PHRD-639: Drug Design and Discovery

Drug Design and Discovery is an elective course designed to provide the student with a foundational understanding of the design and discovery of critical therapeutic agents. This course will focus on computer-based drug-receptor interactions and use the computational tools to design better drugs for the targets. In this course, the students will also be trained in the computer-based design of therapeutic agents for druggable receptors, and optimization of the basic pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties such as absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME), to declare lead molecules. Prerequisite: P2 standing. [ 2 credits ]