School Of SciencePharmacological ChemistryWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 300920.2
Discipline: PHARMACOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
This unit is aimed at undergraduates with a grounding in chemistry and biochemistry.
Equivalent Units
300324 - Pharmacological Chemistry
About this Unit
This unit is aimed at undergraduates with grounding in chemistry and biochemistry who have an interest in a career related to medicinal chemistry. Because it concerns the manner in which foreign molecules can interact with the body’s mechanisms it is of direct relevance not only to the pharmaceutical industry but also to the food, agricultural, cosmetic (etc) industries. It conveys the fascination of designing chemical structures for particular uses within biological systems and which overlap the disciplines of chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology and pharmacology. Emphasis is placed upon design of the chemical structure itself rather than an investigation of the specific chemical structure of its site of action in the body. This is reflected in the laboratory work which traces the historical development of drug design, essentially through a process of a series of inorganic syntheses, relevant to a range of common drugs.
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