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COURSE STRUCTURE: Four Semesters:

 

As experimental approaches are gaining greater acceptance over pre-dominantly theory-centric methodologies, an appropriate mixture of theory and hands on training will be used in the course. First semester teaching aims to introduce students to basic techniques of molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics and pharmacology along with advanced statistical methods and computer programming. Basics of genetics and drug design methods along with computer programming will form the bases for advance courses on genomics, proteomics and target based drug design in the second semester. In the third semester advanced courses on informatics technology will be taught including the database management, development and interpretation of the results obtained by various techniques. Apart from the theory courses students will learn basic experiments of all the sciences and a good exposure of software used in biology and computation. Fourth semester students will work on different practical problems (in house or industrial) related to drug discovery and development.

 

  
 
SEMESTER - I.
  1. Biostatistics
  2. Spectral Analysis
  3. Basics of Drug Action
  4. Dosage Form Design Parameters
  5. Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics
  6. Informatics and Information Technology
  7. General lab experience with 100 hrs of    Computer programming - lab
  8. Seminar
SEMESTER - II.
  1. Molecular Biology
  2. Bioinformatics
  3. Genomics and proteomics
  4. Drug Design
  5. Structure and function of biomolecules
  6. Pharmacological Screening and assays
  7. Drug Metabolism & Toxicity and Metabolic disorders
  8. Seminar
  9. Computer programming - lab
SEMESTER - III.
  1. Pharmacoinformatics - the methodology
  2. Pharmacoinformatics - the tools
  3. Pharmacy Informatics
  4. Seminars on TRIPS agreements, IPR, patents, transfer of technology issues and search strategies related to drug discovery, technology products and processes.
  5. TRIPS issues on herbal drugs
  6. Drugs Development and Regulatory requirements including herbal drugs
  7. Bio- and chemo- informatics - project
SEMESTER - IV
Project work in the areas related to
  1. Computer programming for RDBMS
  2. Development of Databases using RDBMS methods
  3. Computer aided drug design
  4. Bioinformatics
  5. Chemoinformatics
  6. Pharmacy inforamtics

 

Syllabus in detail: (pdf)