311048 (v.1) Medicinal Chemistry 301

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Credits:	12.5
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.
Syllabus:	Drug Discovery and Design: an overview of the stages, processes, technologies and approaches undertaken in modern drug discovery and design (emphasising the chemistry-based preclinical research performed by multinational pharmaceutical companies). The importance of drug screening and lead compound optimisation processes. Basic medicinal concepts and principles applied in drug discovery e.g. the drug pharmacophore, SAR studies, bioisosterism. The application of combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening. the role of molecular modelling in drug design and structural biology (includes the use of x-ray crystallography in drug-receptor mapping). The concept of of prodrugs in drug design and delivery (includes a variety of examples from various drugclasses). Medicinal chemistry of selected drugs which include Peptide drugs, steroidal drugs, NSAIDS, Opiod analgesics, Antipsychotic and Anxyolytic agents, Cardiovascular drugs, Antibacterials, Antivirals, anticancer drugs, Antifungals, Antirparasitics,GIT system-acting drugs, Endocrine system-acting drugs.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	019907 Pharmacology
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
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	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