Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Adv. Med. Chem.: Chemical diversity in ligand design
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3254-20-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 01/03/2020

Date and time	15.06.2020, at: 09:00 - 17.06.2020, at: 12:00
Regular seats	12
Course fee	4,320.00 kr.
Lecturers	Lennart Bunch
ECTS credits	2.00

Contact person	Marianne Wieslander Jørgensen E-mail address: marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from Nordic countries. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1.Explain and describe the size and complexity of chemical space available for a medicinal chemists 2.Explain and critically asses the methods used for describing chemical diversity 3.Critically discuss the chemical diversity in the context of medicinal chemistry 4.Apply methods to ligand design and library design Content The terms chemical diversity is often used amongst medicinal chemists and other researchers when discussing ligand design and design of compound libraries used for screening purposes. The PhD course comprises introduction and definitions of the terms molecular descriptors, fingerprints, clustering, and how these mathematical methods feed into chemical diversity. Furthermore, the terms chemical space, biological space, drug-like space are also introduced and discussed. Finally all of the aforementioned terms and methods are applied to ligand design and design of compound libraries. Participants The target group is PhD students who are pursuing a PhD in medicinal chemistry or organic chemistry. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Research Academy) All graduate programmes Language English Form The course will comprise 50% lectures and 50% exercises/group discussions. Furthermore, all participants must formulate and bring a specific ligand design problem related to their current or prior research project, or from the literature. Exam – hand in of report, active participation in group and plenum discussions, presentations. Assessment: Pass/fail. Course director Lennart Bunch, Associate Professor, PhD Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen Email: Lebu@sund.ku.dk Name, title, affiliation, email Teachers Lennart Bunch, Associate Professor, ILF/SUND/KU Rasmus P. Clausen, Associate Professor, ILF/SUND/KU Jesper L. Kristensen, Professor, ILF/SUND/KU Dates 2 half days, 1 full day, June 15-17, 2020. Course location Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Jagtvej 162 2100 Copenhagen OE Denmark Registration Please register before March 1, 2020. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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