Molecular Drug Design

Course Specification:

Programme Code(s)

BSc. Hons. Biotechnology (P11493)

Host Faculty

Faculty of Biotechnology

Host Department

Biotechnology

Code

BT309b

Title

Molecular drug design

Leader

Dr. Amr Ageez

Level    

4

 

5

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6

 

7

 

Credit

4

Pre-requisites

GEN304b

                                                                                               

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;