CHEM 69800 - Chemical Genomics

The advent of high-throughput technologies and powerful computational tools is transforming the manner new drugs are developed. This course (bioinformatics) is designed to introduce students to two emerging areas of drug development, namely (1) computer-assisted drug design and (2) personalized medicine. Computer-assisted drug design is an approach to design drugs based on three dimensional structures of macromolecules. Personalized medicine, on the other hand, aims at tailoring patient treatments based on individual genetic information (biomarkers). In this course, students will be first equipped with fundamental theoretical and experimental concepts related to these topics. Then, they will learn how to acquire new knowledge in these exciting fields of drug development through critical analysis of literature.

Hours 3 hrs
Credits 3 cr.