Drug Design and Action

This course will give an overview of how drugs are designed and function to help synthetic chemists improve their understanding of drug chemistry. It covers stages of drug discovery process, drugtarget interactions, pharmacological properties in drug design, elucidation of mechanism of action of drugs, description of routes for the delivery of drugs in the human body, chemical aspects of drug metabolism and the concept of pro-drugs. Prerequisites: CHM 222 and CHM 335 or BIO 227.