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Computer Aided Drug Design

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Drug discovery and development is a time consuming and expensive process., taking about 10 years and costing about US 1.0 B dollars. Several candidates that enter clinical trials fail because of several reasons. Computer assisted drug design can speed up the process, reduce surprises and predict the properties, thereby reduce the cost of R&D. The course will cover structure and target based design, molecular modeling, quantum mechanics, drug likeness properties, QSAR and pharmacokinetic and dynamics using several softwares that are freely available.

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Final Exam (in-person, invigilated, currently conducted in India) is mandatory for Certification and has INR Rs. 1100 as exam fee



INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Biotech/Pharmaceuticals/Bioinformatics /Chemistry and allied programmes and research scientists in biotechnology and pharma industries and clinicians/medical practioners

CORE/ELECTIVE: Core

UG/PG: UG and PG

PREREQUISITES: Prior knowledge of biochemistry, bioinformaticsl

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Pharmaceutical industries/Biopharma/biotech

2574 students have enrolled already!!

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

  

Professor at the Department of Biotechnology at IIT Madras. Has previously worked in Imperial chemical Industries (ICI) and General Electric (GE) for 20 years. Areas of research are Biomaterials, Biopolymers, and Drug design. Published 280 papers and 10 books and filed 10 patents (including two US). He has delivered on line video courses in Downstream processes, Medical Biomaterials and Biostatistics and Design of Experiments

COURSE LAYOUT:

Week 1  :  Introduction to drug discovery
Week 2  :  Structure and property
Week 3  : ADME-rules
Week 4  :  Force field/MM/QM 
Week 5  :  Boundary conditions/Conformation 
Week 6  :  QSAR/Pharmacophore
Week 7  :  Enzymes/proteins structures/docking
Week 8  :  PK/PD
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  • Date and Time of Exam: October 7 (Sunday)
  • Time of Exam: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
  • Exam for this course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:
  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 6 out of 8 assignments
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.