Health Sciences – Pharmacy

The course includes an introduction to the scientific method and it’s application to the study of chemistry and the properties of matter. Topics include the structure of matter at the atomic level, the electronic structure of atoms, chemical reactions, and techniques in chemical equations and stoichiometry. 

This course focuses on the fundamental aspects and current methodologies involved in the drug discovery process. The fundamental aspects include the physical, chemical and pharmaceutical properties of drugs and their mechanism of action. The methodologies include lead discovery strategies, statistically based QSAR optimization methods, structure-based and mechanism-based design methods, and combinatorial techniques. Categories of drugs and the application to the chemotherapy of cancer, viral and microbial diseases will be examined.

The theory of demand, production, cost, and resource allocation in a market economy. Models of market structure are developed and various forms of market failure are analyzed. Also developed are models of risk and uncertainty and theories of factor pricing and income distribution.