Field of study: Chemistry

Specialization: Medicinal Chemistry

Medicinal chemistry is a scientific discipline at the intersection of chemistry and computational science involved with desingning, synthesizing and developing new pharmaceutical drugs. In the beginning medicinal chemistry was involved in the screenigof natural sources like plants or animals. Now the natural compounds serves as the leading compounds in the synthesis and development of new chemical entities suitable for therapeutic use. Medicinal chemistry includes the synthesis and analysis of existing drugs, evaluation of their biological properties, analysis of structure-activity relationships as well as design and synthesis of new drugs or search for their natural sources. It is a highly interdisciplinary discipline widely using advanced, synthetic, spectroscopic and computational methods. Thus medicinal chemists cooperate with theoretical chemists, synthetic chemists, medical doctors, microbiologists, pharmacologists.
The graduation document certifies the degree in chemistry with the notification of a deepened specialization in Medicinal Chemistry.

ENTRY INFORMATION
Required: Bachelor Engineering Degree in chemistry or related domains.
»» Deadline for application: 30th November 2014
»» English: TOEFL – 550 points or IELTS – 6,5 points
»» Tuition fee:
Non EU/EFTA students: 4000 EUR per year
EU/EFTA students: no tuition fee
»» Application fee:
Non EU/EFTA students: 200 EUR
EU/EFTA students: 20 EUR

COURSES
SEMESTER 1
»» Theoretical chemistry
»» Spectroscopy
»» Crystallography
»» Analytical methods in drug design and technology
»» Introduction to practical statistics
»» Foreign language 

SEMESTER 2
»» Instrumental drug analysis
»» Molecular modeling
»» Retrieval of scientific and technical information
»» Medicinal natural products
»» Synthetic organic drugs
»» Economics and organization of industrial biotechnology
»» Rational drug design 
»» Graduate laboratory I

SEMESTER 3
»» Physical organic chemistry
»» Multistep organic synthesis
»» Inorganic drugs
»» Polymers in medicine
»» Quality management systems
»» Philosophy of science and technology II
»» Graduate laboratory II
»» Graduation seminar and thesis preparation

OPTIONAL COURSES
»» Combinatorial chemistry
»» Principles of physiological chemistry
»» Selected reactions in organic chemistry
»» Self-organization in chemistry

JOB PROSPECTS
The students are educated in the field of chemistry, mainly synthesis, structure analysis including spectroscopic methods, molecular modelling and they have training in medicinal chemistry. Some students, depending on their thesis topic, may accomplish part of their research and/or graduate laboratory in Medical Academy in Wrocław under supervision of medical medical doctors or in the Institute of immunology and Experimental Therapy in Wrocław. Graduate level programs provide many of the skills needed in scientific laboratories as well as in modern chemical and pharmaceutical industry.