PCOL195A

036544

The course will track the development phases of a medicine of the future from its discovery, design to preclinical development to clinical development to its adoption, clinical application, use and evaluation. How medicines are discovered and produced require an awareness and knowledge of the many factors that interplay and influence pharmacologic actions, physiologic responses, effectiveness and toxicity. Many different and specific research approaches and methods link the processes of development to the use and evaluation of a promising therapeutic entity. This course will attempt to explain how scientists are guided by many disciplines such as: medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, immunology; genetics and pharmacogenomics, pharmacokinetics, clinical toxicology and therapeutics, pharmacoepidemiology, and pharmacoeconomics/health outcomes in the search for and discovery of new drugs. The course will also give attention to providing insight into health and disease and their influence on developing new medicines. How medicines work, when they don't work or even become harmful will be addressed.

OPT - Student Option

Undergraduate

FRCQ - FC (Freshman Colloquia)