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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

313333 (v.1) Medicinal Chemistry 303

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Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.5
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x .5 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 311034 (v.1) Pharmaceutical Analysis 200 or any previous version
AND
311041 (v.2) Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Toxicology 222 or any previous version
Syllabus: Drug discovery and design an overview of the various stages, processes and technologies used in the drug discovery and design, particularly drug screening and lead compound optimisation. Discussion of miscellaneous medicinal concepts and principles applied in drug discovery including the role of molecular modeling. The principles and applications of prodrugs in drug design and delivery. Medicinal chemistry of selected drug groups: discussion of the medicinal chemistry of clincally relevant drug groups. This includes the basic chemical structure, SAR and the key chemical, biological and medicinal properties. These drug groups will include CNS-acting drugs, peptide drugs, steroidal drugs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs), cardiovascular drugs, antimicrobial drugs, anticancer drugs, gastrointestinal tract-acting drugs, metabolic and endocrine-acting drugs.
Field of Education: 019901 Medical Science
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External