310160 (v.1) Drug Discovery and Development 631

Area:	School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
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.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	The process of drug discovery and development is complicated and requires scientific knowledge from the molecular to the systemic level. This unit will hence cover a broad range of topics: protein structure, intermolecular forces, molecular modelling andvisualisation, drug-protein interactions, structural biology, computer-aided drug design, drug discovery, lead identification and turning a lead into a drug, pre-clinical and clinical phases of drug development, the importance of pharmacokinetics in drugdevelopment and intellectual property issues in drug discovery. The unit will include lectures from university- and industry-based scientists who are actively engaged in various aspects of drug discovery and development. Specialist tutorials of case studies will highlight many of the issues entailed in the drug discovery and development pathways.
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:	060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
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 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