CHEM 4430 - From Lab Bench to Your Medicine Cabinet

This course will focus on methods of drug discovery. The class will include reading primary literature and discussions about topics ranging from natural products to gene therapy. Students will prepare a paper and presentation on the mechanism of action, timeline of discovery, importance of pharmacokinetics, and the role of basic research in the discovery for a select group of therapeutics Prerequisites: Biological Chemistry I and two semesters of Organic Chemistry

Credits: 3