Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

PHA 307 — Drug Discovery and Development

PHA department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

At the end of the course, students should be able to
illustrate major approaches to drug discovery
restate properties of drugs
explain the techniques used to identify drug targets and lead compounds
discuss methods for determining the pharmacological and toxicological properties of compounds
describe the role of pharmacokinetic principles in the drug discovery process; and

Course contents

Introduction: Medicines and discovery processes. Initial stages: Target discovery; applications of molecular biology, in silico methods and assays; lead discovery; lead optimization; biomarkers. Measurement of drug properties: assay techniques; agonists (full, partial, inverse and biased); competitive antagonists.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study PHA 307.

PHA 307 — Drug Discovery and Development

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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