Medicinal Chemistry with a Year in Industry

About this course

Medicinal chemistry is the science of designing and synthesising chemical compounds that have therapeutic effects in the human body. It sits at the intersection of organic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and molecular biology, applying the principles of chemical synthesis and molecular design to the challenge of creating new drugs, improving existing ones, and understanding how chemical structure determines biological activity. The pharmaceutical industry depends on medicinal chemists to move from an initial biological target to a chemical compound that is potent, selective, safe, and suitable for development as a medicine, and the process involves both creative synthetic chemistry and rigorous testing and refinement. At Cardiff University, this four-year programme includes a year in industry in which you spend a sustained period working with a pharmaceutical or biotechnology com

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