Project Details:

Medicinal Chemistry India 2013 - A pilot Study

The objective of the Medicinal Chemistry India (MCI) project is to create and optimize a basic medicinal chemistry course for industrial and academic scientists in India and South East Asian countries.  

Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India (www.sriramachandra.edu.in) has generously agreed to host this event and will provide the access to their facility for the period.

 

The increase in medicinal chemistry employment in Asian pharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations collaborating with US and European companies has created a need for chemists to acquire state of the art knowledge of medicinal chemistry.

This course will emphasize the design strategy that takes into account optimization of physio-chemical properties and elimination of potential toxicophores in analogs syntheses during the lead optimization phase.

The MCI course will be based on the successful Drew University Residential School on Medicinal Chemistry, taught annually since 1986 on the Drew University campus in Madison, New Jersey (www.drew.edu/resmed).

MCI 2013 will comprise 3.5 days of content, including 16 1-hour lectures on topics related to medicinal chemistry, and 4 case history presentations of drug discovery programs. In the first year, the course will be taught mainly by faculty from the US, with the goal of recruiting an increasing number of Indian and other Asian countries faculty members in subsequent years.

The performance and value of the MCI course will be assessed after 3 years, and a decision whether to continue in the same format made at that time. The desired outcome will be to enroll 60-100 attendees each year, and provide them with a strong introduction to the practice of medicinal chemistry in drug discovery.

The first MCI Course took place in February 2013 at Sri Ramachandran University in Chennai, India.  Subsequent Courses are anticipated in the first quarter of 2014 and 2015.  

Last update 8 April 2013

 

• Greenlee, William
• Balasubramanian, Balu

• Thyagarajan, S.
• Triggle, David