Instruct PartnerUpcoming course from the International School of Crystallography: Structural Drug Design 2023: Biology, Chemistry and Computers!
The past two years have been transformational in showing how the medical and scientific communities can respond to acute health threats: the worldwide collaboration of scientists from all fields of biology, chemistry and structural sciences delivered results at previously unseen speed. Nevertheless, understanding and managing all aspects of human health remains one of society’s biggest challenges, and this in turn requires a robust understanding, currently still highly incomplete, of the underlying biology and healthy and diseased states. Structural information illuminates and accelerates all aspects of this drug design process, but the focus has remained decisively on the earlier stages, to providing tools for the understanding of the disease biology. Moreover, traditional structural biology techniques have now been thoroughly integrated with other disciplines, including biophysics, informatics, biology and chemistry. This continuous evolution means that success of the entire process depends on proper management of the increasing complexity, diversity and volume of data generated.
The purpose of the course is to provide the students with: a) an overview of the current structural and biophysical techniques used in the field; b) the use of informatics tools in drug discovery; c) the evolving role of chemistry in drug design and biology understanding; and d) an introduction to biologics and their applications. Several case studies will be presented to highlight the different topics. Hands-on workshops and tutorials will complement the lectures.
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