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Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry
The Department of Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry is responsible for the
development, delivery and examination of Chemistry courses to:
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Students on structured PhD programmes
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MSc students in Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Undergraduate students of Pharmacy (years 1-4)
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Foundation year students of Medicine and Physiotherapy
The research activities of the Department are in the following areas:
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Organic synthesis/methodology underpinning drug discovery.
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Peptide-based antibiotic and anticancer agents, nanomedicines and drug
delivery systems.
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Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of metal-based anti cancer agents.
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New inhibitors of cyclooxygenase as anti-inflammatory agents.
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Drugs from natural sources.
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Computer-aided drug design targeting cardiovascular diseases (thrombosis,
hypertension), infectious diseases (malaria, MRSA, HIV), neurodegenerative
diseases and cancer (bone metastasis, skin cancer).
Professor Kevin B Nolan
Email: kbnolan@rcsi.ie
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