06f-10
INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

Tadayuki UNO, et al.(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.

Lecture Outline
  1 Introduction Prof. Uno
  2 Drugs from the nature Assist. Prof. Aoki
  3 Molecular structure and biological activity Prof. Tanaka
  4 Production of pharmaceuticals by cell culture Prof. Yagi
  5 Genetics for pharmaceutical application Prof. Maeda
  6 Utilization of insect and nematode for pharmaceutical research Assist. Prof. Ohashi
  7 Stress and immunology Prof. Yamamoto
  8 How to take care of broken hearts—Fighting with heart failure Assoc. Prof. Fujio
  9 New wave in environmental microbiology Prof. Nasu
  10 Effects of environmental pollutants on endocrine system Assoc. Prof. Nishikawa
  11 Production of useful metabolites by photosynthetic organisms Assoc. Prof. Hirata
  12 Demonstration of some experiments on pharmaceutical sciences

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

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%).