330.707 Graduate Pharmacology Course

330.707 Graduate Pharmacology Course 2008

Course Directors: RONALD SCHNAAR and JIN ZHANG

JANUARY – MAY  10:30-12:00  MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
303 WBSB - Abel Library 
plus five (5) Tutorial sessions:  FRIDAYS, Jan 11, 18, 25; Feb 1, 8
2:00 - 4:00 pm

This spring semester course is designed for second year graduate students and will cover basic pharmacology concepts as well as specific drug classes related to diseases.  The first half of the course includes lectures on receptors, enzymes, pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism, combinatorial chemistry, and drug design.  The second half of the course includes lectures on therapeutic agents used in infectious diseases, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, endocrine disorders, inflammation, and psychiatric illness.  There will be two exams.  In addition, a series of tutorials on specialty topics will be given concurrently for small groups starting January 2008.

(Please note: Tutorials will begin January 11th – please contact Amy Loveland at Ext. 5-1457 or email alovela1@jhmi.edu to sign up for a Tutorial before January 3, 2007).

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Course Administrator:  Amy Loveland, 410-955-1457 (alovela1@jhmi.edu)

Recommended text:  Goodman and Gilman’s Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Eleventh Edition, Joel Hardman and Lee E. Limbird, Eds., McGraw Hill ($137.00 at the Medical Book Center). 

A Reference Copy of the above text will be available at the Reserve Collection Center, 204 Welch Medical Library, and is also available in 302-B Wood Basic Science Building.

Available free online through the Basic Science Digital Library (http://bsdlibrary.jhmi.edu, click on 'G', then 'eBooks')

Course Faculty