Drug Discovery and
Integrative Chemical Biology

  

NU Center for Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology

Program of Study

The drug discovery training curriculum includes formal coursework, a visiting lecture series, a Research-in-Progress lecture series, and an annual symposium consisting of poster presentations by trainees.

Graduate school requirements include submission of an approved thesis and completion of nine graduate credits of formal coursework. The drug discovery training curriculum fulfills this graduate school requirement with one required course, five courses chosen from the list below, and three additional electives. The choice of the five courses and three additional electives is done by the student after consultation with the advisor.

Courses

Required course (1) Advanced Topics in Drug Discovery IGP 425
Drug Discovery Training Electives (5) IGP401 Biochemistry OR BiolSci 401 Molecular Biophysics
IGP410 Molecular Biology OR BiolSci 402 Eukaryotic Molecular Biology
IGP405 Cell Biology OR BiolSci 406 Cell Biology


Chem 411 Organic Spectroscopy
Chem 412 Mechanisms of Organic Reactions
Chem 413-1 Advanced Organic Chemistry 1
Chem 413-2 Advanced Organic Chemistry 2
Chem 414-1 Bioorganic Chemistry: Enzyme-catalyzed Reactions
Chem 415 Advanced Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry

IGP 415 Biological Imaging: Principles and Applications
IGP 440 Immunology
IGP 450 Tumor Cell Biology
IGP 475 Virology
IGP 465 Macromolecular Structure-Function
IGP 466 Structural Basis of Signal Transduction

NUIN 478 Neuropharmacology of Brain Disorders

ClinSci 303 Drug Development Process
PubHealth 446 Clinical Trials

BiolSci 323 Bioinformatics
BiolSci 455-1 Crystallography and NMR Spectroscopy
BiolSci 455-2 Biophysical Methods

ChemEng 379 Introduction to Computational Biology
Supplementary Training Electives (3) 3 additional courses can be selected from the list above or can be any other graduate course


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