The practical course complements the lectures on Pharmacology and Toxicology.

This course provides an overview over the concepts and processes employed in today's drug discovery and development. It has an introductory character but will also provide more detailed insights employing real life examples. The course combines lectures and interactive elements which require active participation of the students.

First identification with Pharmaceutical Sciences; motivation for profiling in the Natural Sciences, which are focused on within the first two years as a preparation for the specialized studies; sensitization for the duties and the responsibilities of a person with a federal diploma in Pharmacy; information about job opportunities.

The lecture series takes place at the ETH Hönggerberg and covers a variety of major activities involved in drug discovery: selecting drug targets, technologies used in drug discovery, small, medium and large drugs, objectives of the medicinal chemist, assessing drug safety, principles of personalized medicine, designing clinical trials, how intellectual property is protected, as well as others.

First identification with Pharmaceutical Sciences; motivation for profiling in the Natural Sciences, which are focused on within the first two years as a preparation for the specialized studies; sensitization for the duties and the responsibilities of a person with a federal diploma in Pharmacy; information about job opportunities.

The aim of the course is to give an overview of the traditional field of pharmacogenetics, which focuses on the polymorphisms of distinct genes, and to introduce the expanding potential of pharmacogenomics which encompasses the entire genome from which the multifactorial complexity of drug response unfolds.

This two-semester lecture course provides a detailed understanding of the fundamentals of drug action and the therapeutic use of important classes of drugs. The lecture course Pharmacology and Toxicology I gives an introduction to pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics and explains basic principles of neuropharmacology.

The two-semester lecture course will provide a basic understanding of mechanisms of drug action, pharmacological properties and therapeutic uses of important classes of drugs. The lectures are intended for students of pharmacy and health sciences.

State-of-the-art information on drug discovery and development by experts from academia and industry.