Drug Discovery

2.0 credits

This course is designed to provide graduate-level and senior undergraduate students with an introduction to current Drug Discovery processes, with special emphasis placed on antimicrobial development. The course is taught by University of Rochester faculty with drug discovery research programs as well as internationally recognized leaders in requisite fields of pharmaceutical practices from biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, bioinformatics-based drug target identification, high throughput screening approaches (and pitfalls), medicinal chemistry, hit to lead optimization, clinical trial design, and intellectual property and portfolio management.