Welcome to fourth year pharmacy students. I wish you a happy fruitful academic year. Your are first-time students of pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry. This is an interesting chemistry science that deals with the study of the chemical structures of drugs. The importance of this study lies in that the relation between structure and biological activity is intimate; so that you can predict the activity of an unknown compound just from its chemistry. Also, you can know which structure will be more active than the other. In addition, you can explain many pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties based on the chemical stucture of the compound. You will also study the principles of drug design and discovery in traditional and in computer-assissted processes. Another important topic in your study includes the understanding and pathways of drug metabolism. Moreover, you will study the methods of synthesis and analysis of different drugs.
Regarding my course, we will enjoy together the study of mechanism-based drug design, computer-aided drug design, physicochemical properties of drugs in relation to their action, and quantitative structure-activity relationships.
You are invited to visit my blog at the end of each week during the course of my lectures as you can find helpful things that will assisst your knowledge and understanding of the course I will teach to you.
Best wishes.
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