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Workload
Education level
Study areas
Responsible person
Hours per week
Coordinating university
3 ECTS
R - Doctoral programme
Human Medicine
Susanna Zierler
2 hpw
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Pre-requisites
(*)Zulassung zum Doktoratsstudium Medical Sciences, Naturwissenschaften bzw. Technischen Wissenschaften
Original study plan
Doctoral programme Medical Sciences 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
The students can understand the effect of drugs on the basis of molecular interactions and are then able to deduce the effect of the influence of selected target molecules and recognize the causes of potential undesirable side effects of pharmacological therapy.
Skills
Knowledge
Understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying the action of drugs.
Understanding of molecular pathways affected by various drug classes.
Understanding of molecular interactions responsible for side effects.
Molecular interactions underlying the action of drugs from selected major areas of medicine.
Signaling cascades affected by select compounds with a particular focus on new insights from current research.
Enzymes involved in the metabolism and the transporters responsible for the excretion of pharmaceuticals.
Novel therapeutic approaches currently under development.
Criteria for evaluation
Attendance of at least 75 %.
Active participation during the discussion.
Methods
Lectures by instructor(s) and discussions.
Language
English
Study material
Selected publications provided by the lecturer and autodidactic search of PubMed and other sources.
