Postgraduate Course: Druggable Systems (PGBI11067)
Course Outline
School | School of Biological Sciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | **Online Learning Course**
Some targets are more likely to have a successful drug developed against them than others. In next generation drug discovery, drug targets are likely to be chosen on a more rational basis. This course will introduce some targets to which successful drugs have been developed while examining the reasons why success was achieved and how these lessons might be applied to future cases. |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- At the end of this course students should be able to: Appreciate the characteristics of successful drug targets;
- Understand and evaluate the structural characteristics of successful drug binding sites;
- Gauge the characteristics of protein's place in a pathway, or system of interacting proteins, for its likelihood to be a good drug target.
- Name and describe several experimental methods for validating a drug target
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Additional Information
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Keywords | Druggable |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Douglas Houston
Tel: (0131 6)50 7358
Email: DouglasR.Houston@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Claire Black
Tel: (0131 6)50 8637
Email: Claire.Black@ed.ac.uk |
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