Pharmacology and Drug Discovery

About this course

Pharmacology and drug discovery is a discipline that sits at the scientific heart of modern medicine, concerned with how chemical compounds interact with biological systems to produce therapeutic effects and how those compounds are identified, tested, and developed into medicines. Drug discovery is the process by which potential new treatments are found, refined, and validated, and it requires a deep understanding of molecular pharmacology, cellular biology, receptor systems, toxicology, and the pharmacokinetics that determine how drugs behave in the body. At the University of East Anglia, this three-year full-time programme gives you a thorough grounding in the biological and chemical sciences that underpin pharmacology before moving into specialist content in drug discovery, molecular pharmacology, and the processes by which candidates move from laboratory research towards clinical ap

Where its graduates go

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