78857 - Product Design 2

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Docente: Assimo Maris
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: CHIM/06
  • Language: English
  • Moduli: Maria De Lurdes Dos Santos Cristiano (Modulo 1) Axel Bidon-Chanal Badia (Modulo 2) Assimo Maris (Modulo 3)
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 3)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Chemistry (cod. 8856)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Chemistry (cod. 8856)
    Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Chemistry (cod. 8856)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will know the problems of discovering and designing new pharmaceutically active substances and patenting their production and use. He will know how to apply computational tools for the forecast of the bio-pharmacological and environmental properties of new chemicals. The student is expected to be able to: 1. Design and discover new drugs; 2. Apply the principles of patenting and intellectual property rights to design and development of new chemical products ; 3. Use the tools of QSAR for the forecast of the properties of new drugs.

Course contents

The course is an introduction to computational methods applied to the tackling of chemical problems with emphasis on the relation between structure and chemical properties (biological activity and toxicity). The emphasis will be on the rational design of new molecules of chemical, biological and pharmacological interest and on the toxicity of chemicals.

Readings/Bibliography

Andrew R. Leach "Molecular modelling: principles and applications" Prentice Hall
"Chemoinformatics: A Textbook" Edited by Johann Gasteiger and Thomas Engel, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co
Lecture notes

Teaching methods

Lectures and computer laboratory.

Assessment methods

Written and informatic exam.

Teaching tools

Lectures and computer laboratory.

Office hours

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