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Graduate Courses


Graduate Courses Offered by the Medicinal Chemistry Department

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Title and Description

MedC 5185

Principles of Biomolecular Simulation (3 cr Molecular simulation for students in medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, biochemistry, and chemical physics.

MedC 5200

The New Drug Development Process (1 cr)
New drug development process in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.

MedC 5202

Research and Development Process of Pharmaceutical
Products (2 cr)
New drug development process in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.

MedC 5245

Introduction to Drug Design (3 cr)
Concepts that govern design/discovery of drugs. Physical, bioorganic, medicinal chemical principles applied to explain rational design, mechanism of action drugs.

MedC 5494

Advanced Methods in Quantitative Drug Analysis (3 cr)
Quantitative methods (HPLC, GC, TLC, and immunoassays) for the analysis of drugs and metabolites in biological fluids. Advanced techniques such as capillary electrophoresis, supercritical fluid chromatography, GC-MS, LC-MS, and tandem mass spectrometry. Chromatographic theory and statistical approaches to method validation.

MedC 5495

Vistas in Medicinal Chemistry Research (1 cr)
Selected topics of contemporary interest in medicinal chemistry.

MedC 5600

General Principles of Medicinal Chemistry (3 cr)
Fundamental principles of drug receptors as therapeutic targets, drug-receptor interactions, enzyme inhibitors, drug metabolism and disposition.

MedC 8100

Medicinal Chemistry Seminar

MedC 8500

Design of Chemotherapeutic Agents (2 cr)
Modern aspects of designing chemotherapeutic agents. Strategies for enzyme inhibition and metabolic blocks in development of anticancer, antimicrobial, and antiviral agents.

MedC 8600

Chemical Aspects of Drug Metabolism and Bioactivation (2 cr)
Chemical and enzymatic mechanisms of biotransformation and bioactivation of drugs and other xenobiotics. Reactivity and fate of bioactivated metabolites.

MedC 8700

Advanced Concepts in Drug Design (2 cr)
Use of combinatorial chemistry in drug design and discovery.

MedC 8760

Design of Peptidomimetics (2 cr)
Current approaches to design and synthesis of mimetics of biologically active peptides. Structural and conformational rationale used in peptidomimetic design.

MedC 8800

Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory Techniques (1-2 cr Experiential rotations in medicinal chemistry research laboratories.

MedC 8900

Research in Medicinal Chemistry (1-4 cr)
Study and experimental investigation.

MedC 8333

MedC 8444

MedC 8666

MedC 8777

MedC 8888

FTE: Master’s (1 cr)

FTE: Doctoral (1 cr)

Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits (1-18 cr)

Thesis Credits: Master's (1-18 cr)

Thesis Credits: Doctoral (1-24 cr)

 

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