PHAR 200 – 2018 INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACOLOGY 1 (CRN 20957)

Fridays, 14:35 – 15:25, STBIO S1/3

Barbara Hales (barbara.hales@mcgill.ca); Anne McKinney (anne.mckinney@mcgill.ca)
Teaching Assistant: Can Akerman (suleyman.akerman@mail.mcgill.ca)

DATE TOPIC ROOM

STBIO
Sept. 7 Introduction .............................................................. HALES & McKINNEY
S1/3
STBIO
Sept. 14 The dancing synapse and neurological disorders ................ A. McKINNEY S1/3
STBIO
Sept. 21 How I almost found a cure for cigarette addiction .................... P. CLARKE S1/3
STBIO
Sept. 28 Chemical and electrical signalling in the brain…………………….D. BOWIE S1/3
Inter-kingdom signalling: drugs that influence host-pathogen STBIO
Oct. 5
interactions……………………………………………………...S. ROUSSEAU S1/3
STBIO
Oct. 12 Rational design of a new drug…………….…………………..U. SARAGOVI
S1/3
Oct. 19 MID-TERM EXAM ..................................................................................... TBA
STBIO
Oct. 26 Transcription and the epigenome: emerging drug targets ...........J. TANNY
S1/3
STBIO
Nov. 2 What 3D structures tell us about Parkinson’s disease ......... J-F. TREMPE
S1/3
STBIO
Nov. 9 How to trick bacterial toxins? ............................... ………B. CASTAGNER
S1/3
STBIO
Nov. 16 Nanomedicine……………………........................................D. MAYSINGER
S1/3
STBIO
Nov. 23 G protein-coupled receptors as drug targets……………………..T. HEBERT
S1/3
The path from drug discovery to market – a pharmaceutical company STBIO
Nov. 30
perspective………………………………………………………L. GAROFALO S1/3
TBA Final EXAM ................................................................................................ TBA

EXAMINATIONS: MIDTERM AND FINAL EXAMS – 1 hr each – 4 short answer questions each

GRADE: 50% Midterm + 50% Final, non-cumulative

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