Medicinal and Biopharmaceutical Chemistry

Specific aims:

To provide knowledge of the general methodology for drug synthesis;

To understand the impact of metabolism and pharmacokinetics in drug design;

To highlight the importance of molecular modeling in the discovery and design of new drugs;

To provide the basic methodology of structural identification, using spectroscopic methods;

To provide new research strategies for discovering drug leads from plant derived-bioactive compounds;

To provide knowledge in Biological Chemistry that allow functionalization of biomolecules;

To provide methodologies, in drug discovery and development, for target Identification and diagnostics;

To apply the knowledge described above, in an integrated manner, towards the study of specific groups of drugs, focusing on the current state of knowledge and the problems to be solved;

To stimulate critical reading of scientific literature;

To provide an introduction to scientific research in the field of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.