Why Medicinal Chemistry?
Medicinal chemistry aims to explore the interface between chemistry and biology, blending synthetic chemistry, molecular modeling, computational biology, structural genomics, and pharmacology to discover and design new drugs, and to further investigate Physicochemical principles of drug action, basic principles of drug design, molecular basis of drug action and structure-physicochemical activity relationship.
Highlights of our curriculum
The Undergraduate program at CBC with concentration in Medicinal Chemistry aims to lay the foundations for this important and rapidly expanding field of modern science through a fine blend of discovery, learning and engagement that integrates the basic chemical and biological sciences for the improvement of human health.
Our flexible undergraduate curriculum is designed for those students who do not wish to be confined within the traditional degree requirements of a single department but rather would like to tailor-make an individualized interdisciplinary program better suited to one's particular career objectives. It allows students to concentrate in Medicinal Chemistry and add other undergraduate-level courses from other related disciplines.
Areas covered by our curriculum in the field of Medicinal Chemistry includes
- Physicochemical principles of drug action
- Basic principles of drug design
- Molecular basis of drug action and structure-physicochemical activity relationship
- Discovery, design and development of pharmacodynamic agents
- Combinatorial Chemistry
- Drug Screening Assays
- Diversity-oriented synthesis
- Chemical genetics
- Chemical library design
- Bioinformatics
Career Prospects
"Medicinal chemists are mainly employed by industry--84%, according to the ACS salary and employment survey. Yet government, universities, and nonprofit research foundations also hire medicinal chemists."
Louisa Wray Dalton, Chemical Engineering News, American Chemical Society (ACS) Publication,June 23, 2003.
The medicinal chemistry program at CBC has been specifically designed to fulfill in the long run the burgeoning demand in Singapore and abroad for trained professionals who have the skills to move drug design towards a commercial product via a through understanding of the underlying synthetic challenges. The rapidly growing Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industry requires medicinal chemists of high caliber who can apply their chemistry training to the process of designing and synthesizing new pharmaceutical candidates.
Medicinal chemists have a wide array of career opportunities ranging from pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry to government drug regulatory agencies and clinical research labs.
Want to learn more about the exciting field of Medicinal Chemistry?
ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry
Career prospects in Medicinal Chemistry. ACS Chemistry.org website
Career for the future:Medicinal Chemistry (Chemical and Engineering news)
European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry
Other cool sites in Medicinal chemistry (Virginia Commonwealth University)