Drug discovery and development

Code:

FTEC_14_09

Acronym:

DDNM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Health

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S (of 09-09-2019 to 31-07-2020)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Departamento de Biomedicina
Course/CS Responsible:	PhD Experimental and clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDFTEC	13	Current Studies Plan	1	-	3	14	81

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

Provide students the opportunity to understand, evaluate, and engage with the entire process of drug discovery and development. This unit prepares graduates for a sustainable career with a biotechnology firm, pharmaceutical company, contract research organization, or academic research laboratory.

Learning outcomes and competences

Provide students the opportunity to understand, evaluate, and engage with the entire process of drug discovery and development. This unit prepares graduates for a sustainable career with a biotechnology firm, pharmaceutical company, contract research organization, or academic research laboratory.
At the end of the course, the student is expected to understand how medicines and poisons act, and how they reach their biological targets. The student is expected to understand the major rules of quantitative pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics relevant to medical treatment and poisoning. This is achieved by the standard syllabus of general pharmacology and of special pharmacology of drugs with multiple systemic actions.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Blended learning is used (face-to-face complemented with online support). The module carries 3 ECTS. By convention adopted at the University of Porto, 1 ECTS=27 hours of student workload.  The total workload of the student is estimated to be 81 hours. Face-to-face teaching and learning activities take 27 hours and run for 9 weeks: one lecture per week (1 hour each), one small-group tutorial per week (2 hours each). Every student is given a password to use a complete e-learning platform on a 24-hour basis. The final exam is a 60 minutes test with 50 extended-matching and multiple-choice questions.

Mandatory literature

Ed: R.G. Hill, H.P. Rang; Drug Discovery and Development: Technology In Transition, 2nd Edition, Elsevier – Churchill Livingstone, 2013
B.H. Littman, R. Krishna,; Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery, , Cambridge University Press, 2011
L.L. Burton, B. Chabner, B. Knollman; Goodman & Gilman´s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, McGraw Hill, 2011
B.G. Katzung, S.B. Masters, A.J. Trevor; Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, Ed, McGraw Hill, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

Blended learning is used (face-to-face complemented with online support). The module carries 3 ECTS. By convention adopted at the University of Porto, 1 ECTS=27 hours of student workload.  The total workload of the student is estimated to be 81 hours. Face-to-face teaching and learning activities take 27 hours and run for 9 weeks: one lecture per week (1 hour each), one small-group tutorial per week (2 hours each). Every student is given a password to use a complete e-learning platform on a 24-hour basis. The final exam is a 60 minutes test with 50 extended-matching and multiple-choice questions.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	2,00
Elaboração de projeto	23,00
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Trabalho escrito	12,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Lectures.
Practical classes / laboratory.
Tutorials 

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation is distributed from 0-20 values
The final exam is a 60 minutes test with 50 extended-matching and multiple-choice questions.