Drug discovery and development is a time consuming and expensive process., taking about 10 years and costing about US 1.0 B dollars. Several candidates that enter clinical trials fail because of several reasons. Computer assisted drug design can speed up the process, reduce surprises and predict the properties, thereby reduce the cost of R&D. The course will cover structure and target based design, molecular modeling, quantum mechanics, drug likeness properties, QSAR and pharmacokinetic and dynamics using several softwares that are freely available.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Biotech/Pharmaceuticals/Bioinformatics /Chemistry and allied programmes and research scientists in biotechnology and pharma industries and clinicians/medical practioners
PREREQUISITES
Prior knowledge of biochemistry, bioinformatics
INDUSTRY SUPPORT
Pharmaceutical industries/Biopharma/biotech
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Mukesh Doble:Professor at the department of Biotechnology at IIT Madras. Has previously worked in Imperial chemical Industries(ICI) and General Electric(GE) for 20 years . Areas of research are Biomaterials, Biopolymers and Drug design. Published 270 papers and 10 books and filed 10 patents (including two US). Has delivered on line video courses in Downstream processes and Biostatistics.
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Course Details
Week 1 : Introduction to drug discovery Week 2 : Structure and property Week 3 : ADME-rules Week 4 : Force field/MM/QM Week 5 : Boundary conditions/Conformation Week 6 : QSAR/Pharmacophore Week 7 : Enzymes/proteins structures/docking Week 8 : PK/PD
BOOKS AND REFERENCES:
Voit E (2012) A First Course in Systems Biology. Garland Science, 1/e. ISBN 0815344678 • Klipp E (2009) Systems biology: a textbook. Wiley-VCH, 1/e. ISBN 9783527318742 • Newman MEJ (2011) Networks: an introduction. Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 9780199206650
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