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Code Module Credits Duration Prerequisite(s)
Table II: Electives

Complete 1 of the following 3 45 hrs ---
Modules

AIDD8123 Frontiers in Drug Discovery and 3 45 hrs ---
Development

Societies across the world are looking to combat a greater range of human diseases but
at the same time contain spiralling healthcare costs. This, together with global
competition and increasing regulatory standards, puts enormous pressure on the
pharmaceutical industry to discover and develop a greater number of therapeutic
candidates even faster and cheaper than ever before. This course develops the key
themes in the drug discovery and development pipeline and highlights the multi-
disciplinary nature of the research and development process. The course deals with
different phases in drug development, including target identification and validation, hit
discovery, hit-to-lead optimization, pre-clinical and clinical testing, registration and
commercialisation, regulatory and manufacturing considerations.
AIDD8124 Chemobioinformatics 3 45 hrs ---
Chemobioinformatics brings together two very important fields in pharmaceutical

sciences that have been mostly seen as diverging from each other: chemoinformatics
and bioinformatics. The course provides introduction to the area of
chemobioinformatics in relation to drugs, omics, chemical biology, protein function, and
biomedicine, and includes databases, sequence analysis, proteins and their interactions,
chemical descriptions of proteins and organic compounds, data modeling, QSAR
modeling, proteochemometrics modeling, drug discovery and development, and use of
chemobioinformatics software.

Remarks:
*In order to fulfill the graduation requirement, students must complete 30 credits, including 27 credits from
the compulsory modules listed in Table I, 3 credits from the electives in Table II.

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