Course Specification:

Aims

• To increase the awareness of the students to the importance of drug design and gene therapy as a rapidly growing field of biotechnology.
• To understand the different methods used to analyze the huge amount of information that is being gathered about human gene sequences and genetic diseases.
• To emphasize upon the integration of basic and applied for creation of strategies for drug design.

Learning Outcomes:

The course outcomes for what students should know include:

1. What are the modern methods of the drug design;
2. How databases is used to model a pathways, cells, and diseases;
3. Mining methods to get the information about pathway or a disease by using databases;
4. Application of using modelling in drug design;
5. Different strategies of using RNA molecules in gene therapy;
6. The advantages, limitations, and dangers of using RNA in gene therapy;
7. Different strategies in the design of antiviral drugs, HIV will be used as model for testing these strategies;