Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Help lead and complete a major development project, individually or in teams, related to chemistry.
• Mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired.
• Demonstrate independence and their ability to work alone or in teams.
• Communicate clearly in the scientific domain.
• Communicate, both orally and in writing, their findings, original proposals, knowledge and underlying principles, in a clear, structured and justified manner.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy.
• Pursue their education and gain additional knowledge and new skills.
• Adapt and evolve in a new context.
• Apply high quality scientific methodology.
• Demonstrate thoroughness, independence, creativity, intellectual honesty, and ethical values.

Learning Outcomes of UE

To understand the concept of drug. To understand the methods used to discover and develop them; To understand the problems linked to drug development (in chemistry, physics and biology); To tackle the chemist's roles in research and drug production

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The themes of this course are (i) sources of new drugs, (ii) drug design techniques (chemistry, informatics, mathematics, physics) including a demonstration of computer-aided docking experiment, (iii) structure-activity relationships, (iv) roles of chemistry in pharmacological modulation, (v) the chemistry of drug production and (vi) consequences of drug development

Prior Experience

Not applicable