Medicinal chemistry is a chemistry-based discipline, involving aspects of biological, medical and pharmaceutical sciences. The primary goals for this course are for everyone to gain: 1) an understanding of drug behavior in the body; 2) an appreciation of drug development, from lead optimization, to patents and drug registration and to drugstore shelf; and 3) an awareness of drug toxicity (side effects), from acute responses to long-term effects. Having successfully completed this course, you will not only develop the necessary knowledge and skills for a career that involves medicinal chemistry for research and pharmaceutical application in industry, but also a working knowledge of how and where to find information on any drug you may encounter as you continue your lives, even if your own career choice does not involve health care.
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Year Taken: AY 17/18, Sem 1
Grade: SMid term 1 & 2 & Homework (40%)
Final (60%)I took this because I didn’t know what elective to take, and I couldn’t find any reviews on this module might as well try it so that a review can be written HAHA. The content taught were not difficult, but you need to know how to draw the mechanisms and the “cartoon” actions of some proteins and enzymes. Quite a bit of memory work(but less than CM1031) which I wasn’t feeling motivated enough to study. We were asked to submit 5 homework during lectures and those are included in the grading. It feels like H2 Biology but many more actions of receptors (GPCR, tyrosine kinase receptor) were taught. We also learnt about the different types of drug administration and how it affects the action of drugs. Overall the module is quite interesting. The textbook is available online.
Most people did very well for the tests as I heard the lecturer say that the average score is 80%.😱I’m definitely not one of them(didn’t take back my papers cos I forgot). EH but the lecturer likes to reuse questions for the tests!! And he only uploaded the past year tests AFTER the mid term!! I saved them in my laptop so if anyone need those can pm me. For final, it was alright I guess, but I still SU-ed it since I didn’t study enough and couldn’t expect a good grade after all the slacking.
This review was reposted with the kind permission of Hairdryer. Originally published at https://ionhairdryer.blogspot.com/2018/01/ay1718-ntu-spms-cbc-y2s1.html
June 15, 2021
