Medicinal Chemistry: The Molecular Basis of Drug Discovery Online Course

[sekio]

Here's a neat online course for all your armchair drug designers.


https://www.edx.org/course/davidsonx/davidsonx-001x-medicinal-chemistry-1220

This course explores how to bring a drug from concept to market, and how a drug's chemical structure relates to its biological function. The course opens with an introduction to the drug approval process. This introduction combines the social, economic, and ethical aspects of drug discovery. Topics include how diseases are selected for treatment, the role of animal testing, and the costs of various discovery phases. The course then focuses on the scientific side of drug discovery. Topics include how drugs interact with biological molecules, drug absorption and elimination, and the discovery of weakly active molecules and their optimization into viable drugs.

Students should be able to be able to identify organic chemistry functional groups and read line-angle chemical structures. Students should also know the parts of a cell and be comfortable working with mathematical expressions containing exponents and logarithms.

 

[MrKhazar]

Thanks a whole lot for that link sekio! Mr. Stevens looks a little geeked out in his photo haha! I wonder if you would get kicked out of the course if you mention BL in the discussion forum... Anyway, see you guys on March 10!