Postgraduate Course: Druggable Systems (PGBI11067)

Course Outline
School	School of Biological Sciences	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Online Distance Learning Course Some targets are more likely to have a successful drug developed against them than others. In Next Generation Drug Discovery, drug targets are likely to be chosen on a more rationale basis. This course will introduce some targets to which successful drugs have been developed and will compare these with failures.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Course Start Date	11/01/2016
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 98 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	50% = Group Assessment (including maximum 20% variation for Peer Assessment of contribution) 50% = Electronic Portfolio (comprising of learning log and contribution to skills profile)
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students should be able to: Appreciate the characteristics of successful drug targets; Understand and evaluate the structural characteristics of successful drug binding sites; Gauge the characteristics of protein's place in a pathway, or system of interacting proteins, for its likelihood to be a good drug target. Name and describe several experimental methods for validating a drug target