Computational Drug Design Course_ Part II

 Computational Drug Design Course_ Part II

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By Prof. Afshin Fassihi

Full Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Dr. Fahimeh Ghasemi

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Introduction

Although thousands of potentially active molecules are being detected each year, concerns such as poor pharmacokinetics profiles and the emergence of resistance in microbial, viral and  cancer diseases along with the vast number of drug targets puts forward the de novo drug design as an important task to achieve.

Massive costs and time-consuming nature of laboratory procedures have convinced the pharmaceutical companies and research groups to take the advantage of computational techniques as serious alternative methods. A serious need for a comprehensive insight to the drug design concepts and application of computational approaches to design biologically active molecules is felt in both academy and industry. Two basic approaches have been proposed for computational drug design, relying on either the structure of the biologically active molecules (ligands) or the structure of the macromolecular target of the biologically active ligands. Ligand-based and structure-based drug design approaches are the main principles of all computational drug design courses after the recent advances in computational methods and software’s as well as the evolution of hardware technology. 

Computational Drug Design Course, Part II begins with an overview of the most applied structure-based drug design (SBDD) methods. It continues with teaching the details of pharmacophore modelling and molecular docking simulation techniques as two of the most popular methods in SBDD.

Duration: 30 Hours-5 Days

Registration Date: July 10st - Aug 6th, 2019

Initiation Date: Sep 1st - 5th, 2019

Course Location: Tadbir International Education Center

Contact Info

  • Dr. Hosseini
    • Telephone: 98-31-3792662
  • Mrs. Hashemi
    • Telephone: 98-31-37927653