Common Subjects
MP61736 Advanced Physical Pharmacy
Lectures on selected topics in the application of chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics and pharmaco-kinetics, and surface phenomena on the pharmacological and pharmaceutical systems.
MP62078 Advanced Analytical Chemistry
A major objective of this lecture is to provide a rigorous background in those chemical principles that are particularly important to analytical chemistry and to provide a wide range of techniques of modern analytical chemistry.
MP62509 Biopharmaceutics
Biopharmaceutics refers to the processes of drug absorption, distribution, excretion and metabolism, and the relationship between the drug amount in the body and their pharmacological activity.
MP62522 Advanced Biochemistry
The purpose of this lecture is to understand the biochemical characterization of bio-molecules, such as nucleic acid, protein, lipid and carbohydrate and biological functions of these bio-molecules.
MP63720 Advanced Organic Chemistry
Lectures on the reaction mechanism, reactivity, reaction condition for the synthesis of target compounds, stereochemistry etc.
MP63948 Medicinal Chemistry
Effect of structure on absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. Nature of drug-receptor interactions. Physicochemical and stereochemical aspects of drug action. Structure-property-activity relationship studies are covered.
MP71404 Advanced Pharmaceutical Engineering
The main objective of the course is to introduce recent issues in the pharmaceutical industry so that the professional pharmacy students can understand how the drug products are manufactured and how they are controlled in order to keep their quality. This course may also give another opportunity for the students to understand what kinds of scientific and technological backgrounds are utilized for the drug development.
MP68175 Chemical Biology
This course is designed to illustrate the use of chemical approaches to investigate biological processes at the biochemical, the cellular and the organismal level.
MP68176 A dvanced Biophysics Biomacromolecular Structures
For advanced graduate students. Theoretical background on X-ray crystallography for determination of biomacromolecules.
MP68177 Chemical Therapeutic Agents
This course is designed to give synthetic methods and the mode of action of antiviral, antibacterial and antitumor agents. And rational drug design methodologies will be studied.
MP70668 Nucleoside Chemistry (Ⅰ)
Synthesis and their biological activities of various nucleoside analogues will be taught. Structure-activity relationship, synthetic methods and design of target compounds will be treated.
MP71405 Dosage form and Formulation of Biopharnaceuticals
The purpose of this course is to introduce principals and technologies that are required to formulate biopharmaceuticals such as peptides, proteins and genetic materials.
MP68179 Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry (Ⅱ)
The main goal of this lecture is how the protein and nucleic acid can be used in new drug target materials, especially it will be focused to the molecular mechanisms of newly developed drugs that are based on protein and nucleic acid.
MP61369 Toxicological Biochemistry
This lecture focuses on the biochemistry of toxicants, their uptake, distribution, metabolism, mode of action, and elimination. It also presents biochemical and molecular mechanism of toxicity.
MP63942 Drug Design
Theoretical background for drug discovery and development. Methods for lead discovery and lead optimization are exemplified. Recent advances on quantitative structure-activity relationship studies are introduced.
MP72723 Evidence Based Pharmacy
This course teaches the principles of evidence based pharmacy, drug information and literature evaluation skills using clinical questions in patient cases.
MP71406 Intelligent Drug Delivery System
Novel drug delivery systems that improve targeting ability and release profiles of drugs and achieve appropriate pharmacokinetic profiles of drug or interest will be introduced and recent advances in the field will be also discussed.
Major Subjects
MP60436 Polymeric Drug Research
Design, synthesis and properties of bioactive polymers aiming at controlled-release and site-specific delivery of active agents. Characteristics of polymeric drugs on pharmacokinetic phase of drug action compared with small molecular drugs.
MP61041 Advanced Instrumental Analysis
This course focuses on analyzing ability of unknown compounds obtained from synthetic compounds and compounds derived from naturally occurring materials.
MP62099 Advanced Molecular Biology
The main goal of this lecture is to understand the basic concepts of molecular biology, espectially gene expression and signal transduction of innate immunity.
MP62888 Thesis Research
Graduate students conduct their own research under supervision of their advisors.
MP63095 Steroid Chemistry
Lectures on the special class of organic compound, steroids: on the structure, nomenclature, biological rule, synthesis and distribution in plant kingdom.
MP71407 Design of Controlled Drug Release
This course focuses on the controlled drug release from pharmaceutical dosage form and novel drug delivery systems.
MP63415 Drug Metabolism
Lectures on the metabolic pathways of drugs, and physical and environmental factors affecting the metabolism of xenobiotics and reactive metabolite and toxicity including carcinogenesis and hepatotoxicity.
MP63421 Advanced Drug Targeting
Site specific delivery strategies are discussed for brain, liver, lung, kidney, heart etc. Nature of transport barriers, cytological and biochemical characteristics for the specific target organs, design of site-specific delivery systems are covered.
MP69467 Seminar
Literature review and discussion of current topics in biochemistry, manufacturing pharmacy, and cell biology.
MP64517 Advanced Pharmaceutics
It refers to the development of new dosage forms for drugs, the pharmaceutical optimization, and the unit operation of manufacturing drugs.
MP66446 Enzymology
This lecture provides accounts of the three-dimensional structure of enzymes, chemical catalysis, the basic equations of enzyme kinetics, detection of intermediates in reactions, structures and mechanism of selected enzymes.
MP68178 Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry (I)
The main goal of this lecture is how the protein and nucleic acid can be used in new drug target materials, especially it will be focused to the molecular mechanisms of newly developed drugs that are based on protein and nucleic acid.
MP71408 Biomolecular Nanotechnology
The purpose of this course is to learn principals of nanotechnology and biotechnology that can be applicable to biomolecules.
MP71409 Rate Process
The purpose of stability testing is to provide evidence on how the quality of a drug substance or drug product varies with time under the influence of a variety of environmental factors, such as temperature, humidity, and light, and to estabilish a retest period for the drug or a shelf like for the drug product and recommended storage conditions. This class studies the rates and mechanisms of reactionss with particular emphasis on decomposition and stabilization of drug product.
MP68184 Sugar Chemistry Study
Cells contain a variety of sugar-related metabolites. Methods of chemical modifications of sugar and development of new drug candidates as antimetabolites through structural changes on sugar moiety will be studied.
MP68186 Medicinal Spectrophotometry
This lecture refers to NMR, IR, UV spectrophotometer and mass-spectrometer used for structural analysis of organic compounds.
MP68187 Structure-based Drug Design
This course is designed to illustrate the processes of structure-based drug design.
MP68188 Development of Anti-cancer Drugs
This course is design to introduce developmental processes of anticancer agents by illustrating molecular pathophysiology of cancers and molecular pharmacology of anti-cancer agents
MP68189 Signal Transduction and Human Diseases
This lecture aims at providing academic background for drug development by studying on intracellular signal transduction that is relevant to human diseases.
MP68190 Functional Foods & Nutriceuticals
This lecture refers to biologically active compounds in nutriceutical and their biological activities.
MP72724 Personalized Drug Therapy
This course teaches how to develop optimal drug therapy using patients' clinical and genetic informations.
MP72725 Current Topics in Clinical Pharmacy
This course introduces the student to current topic in clinical pharmacy and make them to apply this to their daily practice.
MP69307 Drug Development Methods
This subject is aiming at providing academic foundation required for becoming an expert of drug development.
MP69041 Development Methods For New Drugs Candidates
This course focuses on the understanding on how to make new drugs and new drug delivery system product.