OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM _

04f-11
INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

Kiyohito YAGI, Toshio MATSUDA, Yutaka KOYAMA, Masatomo MAEDA, Tsutomu NISHIHARA, Kazumasa HIRATA, Katsuji TANI, Tadayasu OHKUBO, Kazuyuki MIYASHITA, Hiromichi FUJIOKA, and Shinsaku NAKAGAWA (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Objective
  This course provides an introduction to pharmaceutical sciences from chemical, biological and environmental perspectives and includes a review of recent advances in Japan. This course consists of lectures, demonstration of experiments and discussions with teachers and graduate students.

Textbook
No particular textbook is used, but some materials will be given out in class.

Lecture Outline
1 Introduction. Prof. Yagi
2 Neuropharmacology of antidepressants. Prof. Matsuda
3 Cell death and regeneration of the central nervous system. Assoc. Prof. Koyama
4 Inhibiting gastric proton pump. Prof. Maeda
5 Medicine and poison in food for Japanese. Prof. Nishihara
6 Bioremediation techniques for environmental contamination. Assoc. Prof. Hirata
7 Man and microbes. Assoc. Prof. Tani
8 Structure-based rational drug design Assoc. Prof. Ohkubo
9 Drug development based on biological function. Assoc. Prof. Miyashita
10 Synthetic drugs. Assoc. Prof. Fujioka
11 Demonstration of some experiments on pharmaceutical sciences. Assoc. Prof. Nakagawa

Grading
The course grade will be based on a term paper to be submitted at the end of the course (60 %), and class participation & discussion (40 %).