Università Roma Tre

The aim of the course is to provide students with the basis for studying the activity of drugs in relation to their chemical and chemical-physical characteristics and the approaches adopted for their design. The course is divided into a general part and a systematic part.
The main knowledge acquired will be:
1) general part - knowledge of the nature of the interactions between a drug and its biological counterpart, of the meaning of receptor and biosystem, of the importance of prodrugs, of enzymes as target of the drugs analyzed in the course.
2) systematic part - knowledge of the different classes of drugs such as, for example, anti-infectives, anticancer drugs, steroid hormones, steroidal and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, and antilipidemics.