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Course Name Essentials of Drug Design (For Minor in Industrial Pharmaceutics)
Course Code 25CHY243
Program B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry
Credits 4
Campus Amritapuri , Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit 1:

Introduction to Drug Design and Its Development (8 Hrs)Definition, history (chronological evolution), drug design approaches, lead optimization, de Novo drug design, various sources of new drugs, leads from natural products, molecular modifications, random screening, high throughput screening, insilico screening, structural features and pharmacological activity, prodrugs, soft drugs.Unit 2: Drug-Receptor Interactions(10 Hrs)Historical background, receptor theories, forces involved in drug receptor interactions, covalent & non-covalent interactions, agonist and antagonists, introduction and general principles of route of drug administration, pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion), specific and non-specific drug action, concept of receptors, drug-receptor interactions, receptor theories, ion-channels and membrane-bound enzymes.

Unit 3:

QSAR in Drug Design (10 Hrs)Parameters and biological data for QSAR, design of test series in QSAR, Craig plot, assessment of drug activity, mechanism of drug action, drug metabolism pathways, drug potentiation, drug antagonism and drug resistance, molecular mimetics, drug-lead modification, drug design using QSAR and computer assisted design,

Unit 4:

Computers in Drug Design (10 Hrs)Introduction, data base and information retrieval techniques, computer graphics and molecular visualization, molecular interactions and interactive graphics, computational chemistry overview, force field methods, geometry optimization, conformational searching.Introduction to molecular mechanics, molecular dynamics & quantum mechanics (semiempirical & ab initio methods), molecular dynamics simulations, modelling in medicinal chemistry-uses and limitations, logical structural approaches, activity profile selection, structure-based drug design and pharmacophore perception, predictive ADME.

Unit 5:

Pharmacokinetics in Drug Designing(10 Hrs)Introduction, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs, principles of pharmacokinetics, environmental pharmacokinetics, single and two compartment pharmacokinetics, pharmacokinetics of drug metabolism, dissection of a drug molecule into bifunctional moieties, modulation of pharmacokinetics by molecular manipulations, Lipinskis rule, QSPR, biopharmaceutics, generic equivalence and non-equivalence, role of biopharmaceutics in drug designing, bioavailability and bioequivalence, pharmacogenetics, adverse drug reaction, drug interactions, bioassays and preclinical studies, clinical trials.

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Overview

Essentials of Drug Design is a course offered to 4-year B.Sc. (Honours) with/without Research and 5-year Integrated M.Sc. students in the department of chemistry. This course is curated to introduce the concepts and requirements for the designing of drug molecules.

Course Outcome

CO1: To explore the principles and development of drug design

CO2: To analyze the mechanisms of drug-receptor interactions

CO3: To apply QSAR principles to enhance drug design

CO4: To utilize computers to advance drug design

CO5: To integrate pharmacokinetics into drug design

Text Books / References

References:

1. Wilson and Gisvolds textbook of pharmaceutical organic medicinal chemistry

2. Foyes principles of medicinal chemistry

3. Burgers medicinal chemistry and drug discovery

4. Organic chemistry of synthetic drugs Lednier

5. The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action. by R.B. Silverman, Academic Press,1992

6. Drug Designs- A series of monographs in medicinal chemistry edited by A.J. Ariens

7. Comprehensive medicinal chemistry. Peragmon Press. 1990, Vol.4.

8. Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics by Goodman & Gillman

9. Pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics by Satoshkar & Bhandarkar

10. Principles of Pharmacology by Sharma & Sharma

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