BCH414: Biochemical Pharmacology 6 credits (40-10-10)

Objectives

To demonstrate how biochemical knowledge can be employed to create medical drugs and how the latter work.

Contents

Basic concepts of pharmacology; Pharmacological and Chemical Classification of drugs; Approaches to drug discovery emphasizing enzymes and receptors as drug targets; combinatorial chemistry and medicinal plants as sources for drugs; Metabolism of zenobiotics; Pharmaceutical Industry and Drug laws. Case studies and illustrative exercises will complete the course.