Objectives of general skills

• 1. Pharmaceutical expertise: Use a foundation of concepts and knowledge in health sciences and pharmaceutical sciences.
• Understand and integrate the fundamental sciences (chemistry, physics, biology, botany) involved in the specific fields of pharmaceutical sciences
• Understand and apply mathematical translations of large models and chemical and/or biological phenomena through abstract reasoning
• Understand and use different graphical representations of numerical values and their relationships
• Perceive spatial distribution, and understand two- and three-dimensional representations and interconvert them
• Understand the chronology of a phenomenon and master the time scales and their representations
• Understand the basic concepts of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics
• Understand compounds for pharmaceutical application regarding their chemical structures, their structure-activity relationships, their physicochemical properties, their origins (synthetic, semi-synthetic, natural), their analytical control methods and their areas of use from a therapeutic point of view.
• 3. Communication: Communicate in an appropriate, efficient, rigorous and respectful way in a professional perspective.
• Understand the basic rules of French (grammar, punctuation, connectors, etc.)
• Use a rich vocabulary linking concepts and words accurately
• Adapt lexical and syntactic choices in communication register (everyday language, medical language or scientific terminology)
• Summarise, explain, and argue
• Share knowledge and information
• 5. Quality: Assess themself, expand their knowledge and adapt their attitude.
• Locate scientific information efficiently
• Research, read, interpret, and critique a scientific paper with sufficient knowledge of scientific English
• Compare different sources of information

UE's Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the students will be able to :

- describe the current drug targets, already used in therapy or under investigations

- understand the mechanisms of action of drugs

- explain the major signaling pathways

The students will also have an overview of the new methods used in drug dicovery

UE Content

1. Drug targets and cellular ionic signaling pathways
2. Drug targets and receptors of mediators (protein-kinases, guanylyl-cyclase,G-proteins, nuclear receptors)
3. Drug targets and neoronal and hormonal transmissions
4. New methods in drug discovery

Prior experience

Fundamentals in Biology and in organic and general chemistry

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral examination

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral Examination

Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Oral examination