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The Department participates in the interdisciplinary concentration in
toxicology. For more information, see the Interdisciplinary Graduate
Studies section of this catalog.
PHA 5475: Synthesis of Prodrugs (3) Prereq: introductory
organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics. An outline of
synthetic and physical chemical approaches to solving drug delivery,
bioavailability, activity, potency, toxicity, and acceptability
problems.
PHA 6115: Equilibria, Complexations, and Interactions of
Drugs (3) Models for drug interactions in solution. Physical
chemistry characteristics of drugs and their complexes in
pharmaceutical systems.
PHA 6354: Natural Medicinal Products(3) Chemistry of
compounds derived from plants and animals.
PHA 6356: Structure Determination of Complex Natural
Products (3) Prereq: CHM 5235 or consent of instructor. Rigorous
structure determination of natural products, using modern
spectroscopic methods. Become able to elucidate the structure of
any organic small molecule.
PHA 6417: Pharmaceutical Analysis II (3) Absorption,
fluorescence, phosphorescence, and spectroanalysis of drugs and
related compounds.
PHA 6425: Drug Biotrans and Molecular Mechanisms of
Toxicity (3) Prereq: introductory organic chemistry, biochemistry.
Enzymology and mechanisms of drug biotransformation pathways.
Examples of drugs and other xenobiotics that exhibit toxicity related
to biotransformation.
PHA 6447: Drug Design (3) Prereq: organic chemistry,
biochemistry, pharmacology, or consent of instructor. Relevant
disciplines and their effect on new drug development, from
discovery of a new active lead compound to final refinement as a
commercial product.
PHA 6448: High Throughput Drug Discovery (2) Prereq: organic
chemistry, biochemistry, or consent of instructor. Introduction to
combinatorial chemistry, multi-compound based technologies, and
their use in screening bioassays to discover lead compounds.
PHA 6471: Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry(3) Review of acid and
base properties of pharmacologically active molecules. Review of
mechanisms of synthetic reactions, and their applications.
PHA 6840: Medicinal Chemistry of Drugs of Abuse(3)
Pharmacological effects of commonly encountered licit and illicit
pharmaceutical compounds.
PHA 6851: Forensic Analysis of DNA(3) Techniques for isolation
of DNA from cells. Spectroscopic techniques. Hydrodynamic and
electrophoretic separation methods. Sequence determination.
Statistical analysis and forensic significance.
PHA 6853: Biological Evidence and Serology(3) Overview of
crime scene investigation as it pertains to biological evidence. Crime