Course Syllabus

Drug Discovery and Development

Welcome to the course Drug Discovery and Development!

The course will be given remotely except for the exam that will be on campus, because of restrictions due to covid-19. It starts with a course introduction on the 30^th of August 2021 at 13:15 on Zoom, (https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/65411876271). The course introduction will be followed by a lecture.l

Please note that before start, you have to register for the course online! Students that wish to participate must register by themselves within the registration period 2021-07-30 - 2021-08-22 in order to not risk losing their place on the course.

Webb registration is necessary in order to participate on the course and can be done via Ladok https://www.student.ladok.se/student/loggain.

At the bottom of the global menu to the far left, you will find the Hjälp/Help function with student user information about the system Studium (Canvas), which we are using for these course pages.

Starting the course: You will find all of the course material under the link Moduler/Modules in the menu to the left.

 Links:

• (Preliminary) Course schedule autumn semester 2021:
  https://cloud.timeedit.net/uu/web/schema/ri1X50g76560Y7QQ4YZ8101Y0Zy000Q655361Q568f.html 
• Course registration, if you have questions contact the course administration: kursadmin@ilk.uu.se

• E-mail to the course administration: kursadmin@ilk.uu.se
  
• E-mail to the course leader, Jonas Rydfjord: jonas.rydfjord@ilk.uu.se 

The course and course literature:

This course covers all the different phases of the drug development process. More specifically, the course deals with identification and validation of target molecule (the target), identification and optimization of active substance, ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Toxicity) profiling, in vivo and in vitro pharmacology, formulation, biomarkers and disease models, clinical trials, registration and commercialization.

The text book: Drug discovery and development - Technology in transition. 2^nd Edition. Edited by H P Rang, ISBN: 9780702042997

Generall information about the Master's Programme in Drug Discovery and Development 

Generall information about the Master's Programme in Pharmaceutical Modelling 

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