The search for new medicinal products is one of the major driving forces behind the development and application of new synthetic methods. This free course, Birth of a drug, focuses on a specific case study that follows the development of a drug for the treatment of high blood pressure. It is a particularly good example of the application of organic chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry, and illustrates the scientific processes that are involved in the development of any new drug.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 The chemical industry
- 1 The chemical industry
- 2 Video activity
- 2 Video activity
- 3 Reading activity
- 3 Reading activity
- 4 Summary of video
- 4 Summary of video
- 5 Birth of a drug
- 5 Birth of a drug
- 5.1 The medical background
- 5.2 The pharmaceutical background
- 5.3 Project initiation
- 5.4 The medical chemistry strategy
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
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4.7 rating, based on 3 Class Central reviews
4.3 rating at OpenLearn based on 12 ratings
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Ann MerlinGave an insight into drug discovery aims at finding new compounds with specific chemical properties for the treatment of diseases. -
this is a great nice open course into the study and birth of drugs however one slight issue with this is that it expects a good fundamental understanding of chemistry and throws a lot of chemical jargon at you without any support so it is quite hard to comprehend the scientific research papers and chemical properties of the medicine however it does well in explaining generally and so this is a great course for you!
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this course is very informative... it helped me to know about many drugs and how they are developed and how we can use them for treatment.
