323002 UE Introduction to Experimental Methods in Drug Discovery and Preclinical Drug Development - MPS1 (2024S)

Students will be given(i) assignments to select and explain the best assay that would allow them to screen for a drug having activity against a specific target. Students will have 1.5 hours for searching the web resources or available literature and composing a short PowerPoint presentation (10 min). This will be followed by student presentation.(ii) a (natural based or synthetic) drug for collecting Information from literature as to its source, history of identification, structure-activity relationship, mechanism of action, application, side effects. The students will present their findings the next days as a PP presentation.