UCL - Integrated Seminar in Pharmaceutical Sciences

[FARM1349]

[ + 45h] 4 credits

Teacher(s): Nathalie Delzenne, Emmanuel Hermans, Didier Lambert, Marie-Paule Mingeot(coord.), Jacques Poupaert

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

Give to the student the opportunity to integrate concepts learned throughout the degree in pharmaceutical sciences by bringing it to think 'how' cross, the structure of an active compound in its action on a drug target.

Main themes

Work done by a small team of students and presented to all students enrolled in the elective course. The various fields of pharmaceutical sciences taught previously will be discussed from the structure of an active compound to its action on the drug target.

The student will have to think about the structure of the active compound (chemical functions, conformations, lipophily), its origin (synthetic, natural product, produced from biotechnology), its target (s) drug (s) (receptor, transporter, ion channel, enzyme), its interaction with one (s)-and its ability to achieve these (pharmacokinetics and metabolism).

Content and teaching methods

- Team of teachers covering all the domains needed for the integration of knowledges (chemists, biochemists, pharmacologists ...)
- Interactive Seminars (Students / students and students / teachers)

Seminars should be presented just before the students do go on stage. Students have had almost all the theoretical knowledge given in the first three years of Bachelor degree in pharmaceutical sciences and will have the opportunity to integrate them before going on stage.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite:
Scientific knowledge acquired during the three years of the Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Evaluation:
Delivery of a written and oral presentation to all students and the teachers.

Supervision:
The team of teachers