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KJE-8704 BIOSTRUCT - Structure guided drug discovery and design - 5 stp
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Type of course
Course contents
Application deadline
Registration deadline for PhD students at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway: September 1st for autumn semester and February 1st for spring semester.
Application deadline for other applicants: June 1st for autumn semester and December 1st for spring semester. Application code 9303 in Søknadsweb.
Admission requirements
PhD students or holders of a Norwegian master´s degree of five years or 3+ 2 years (or equivalent) may be admitted. PhD students must upload a document from their university stating that there are registered PhD students. This group of applicants does not have to prove English proficiency and are exempt from semester fee. Holders of a Master´s degree must upload a Master´s Diploma with Diploma Supplement / English translation of the diploma. Applicants from listed countries must document proficiency in English. To find out if this applies to you see the following list: Proficiency in English must be documented - list of countries For more information on accepted English proficiency tests and scores, as well as exemptions from the English proficiency tests, please see the following document: Proficiency in english - PhD level studies
Students should have some knowledge in organic chemistry and biochemistry.
PhD students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway register for the course through StudentWeb. Other applicants apply for admission through SøknadsWeb. Applicants must attach a confirmation of their status as a PhD student from their home institution. Students who hold a Master of Science degree, but are not yet enrolled as a PhD-student have to attach a copy of their master's degree diploma. These students are also required to pay the semester fee. More information regarding PhD courses at the Faculty of Science and Technology is found here.
Objective of the course
Knowledge
Properties of drugs and drug targets
- Has an overview of the major drug target types
- Has an overview of basic drug properties
- Has an overview of the basic physics and chemistry of drug-target interactions
- Has an overview of target-based drug resistance mechanisms
Biophysical methods and screening
- Has an overview of the major methods to evaluate drug-target interactions
- Has an overview of biochemical and cellular methods to screen for hits
- Has an overview of theoretical and experimental fragment methods
Workflows
- Has knowledge about how structure based drug discovery methods are implemented in industry
- Has an overview on drug approval processes
Data mining and cheminformatics
- Has knowledge about methods and databases for chemical information searching
- Has insight into applications of multidimensional statistical analyses
Synthetic medicinal chemistry
- Has knowledge about "hit explosion" strategies for the generation of drug lead series
- Has knowledge about the use of "diversity-oriented synthesis" to generate suitable chemical libraries
Skills
- Can use molecular graphics to visualize drug target structures
- Can perform computer-based analyses of key drug target properties, such as drug-ability
- Can perform computer-based analyses of key drug properties, such as the Pfizer rules.
- Can perform computer-based analyses of the properties of a series of hit compounds, such as clustering and pharmacophore generation
- Can conduct searches in chemical databases
- Can create a strategy to initiate screening
- Can create in-silico a focussed library of potential hit/lead compounds based on a set of known synthetic methods
General competence
- Understands how drug and drug target structures are used across the drug design process
- Can advise on drug discovery strategies