In-depth theory to molecular and pathophysiological aspects of nerves, muscles, heart , circulatory , respiratory and sensory organs .

The course provides a platform for the investigation, presentation and discussion of a topic with relevance to the field of pharmaceutical sciences. Students work in small groups on a chosen topic and present their work on a one day symposium.

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 Pathobiology course explores the mechanisms underlying diseases and their clinical manifestations. We will use case reports focusing on common diseases, ranging from low to high urgency, to help students understand disease presentation and formulate plausible diagnoses.

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.

The course is divided into three parts. The first part provides an overview of drugs used for the pharmacotherapy of infectious diseases, osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases and cancer. The second part gives an overview of the field of medical virology, and the third part is focused on basic principles of pharmacogenomics.

The course comprises experiments relating to concepts of medicinal chemistry including statistical processing, fitting of experimental data, computer modeling of protein structures, experimental measurement of affinity constants and kinetic dissociation constants for protein ligands. The chemical stability of a drug will be studied. Basic gene cloning and protein expression will be introduced.

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