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)
Course type	Online Distance Learning	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Online 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 rational basis. This course will introduce some targets to which successful drugs have been developed while examining the reasons why success was achieved and how these lessons might be applied to future cases.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: 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