PHARMACOLOGY

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor G Hawksworth

Pre-requisites

BM 3006. BI 20M1, BI 25M1, CM 2008 and CM 2512 are highly recommended.

Notes

The practical work required in this course may pose difficulties to some students with disabilities. If this arises alternative arrangements will be made available. Any student wishing to discuss this further should contact the School Disability Co-ordinator.

Overview

This course covers an introduction to bioanalytical techniques used in pharmacology and toxicology, ADME, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, an introduction to toxicology, carcinogenesis, mutagenesis and biochemical mechanisms of drug action.

Structure

12 week course - 3 one-hour lectures per week, 1 one-hour seminar, 1 one-hour tutorial and 1 eight hour laboratory session every other week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination paper (70%) and in-course assessment - essays, problem solving, laboratory reports, MCQ's (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr H M Wallace

Pre-requisites

BM 3006. BI 20M1, BI 25M1, CM 2008 and CM 2512 highly recommended.

Notes

The practical work required in this course may pose difficulties to some students with disabilities. If this arises alternative arrangements will be made available. Any student wishing to discuss this further should contact the School Disability Co-ordinator.

Overview

The course details aspects of chemotherapy; including antibiotics; antiviral agents; cancer chemotherapy and drug resistance; mechanisms of carcinogenesis; the roles of mediators of inflammation and anti-inflammatory drugs.

Structure

6 week course - 3 one-hour lectures per week, 1 one-hour seminar, 1 eight hour laboratory session.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 ninety-minute written examination paper (75%) and in-course assessment - one laboratory report (10%), one 1000 word essay (10%) and a presentation (5%).

Resit: written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr R Ross

Pre-requisites

BM 3006 and BM 3502

Notes

The practical work required in this course may pose difficulties to some students with disabilities. If this arises alternative arrangements will be made available. Any student wishing to discuss this further should contact the School Disability Co-ordinator.

Overview

This course will cover aspects of molecular pharmacology associated with current research topics or allied areas conducted by academic staff within the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Typical examples include structure and function of transmembrane receptors and channels; molecular recognition and response; transmembrane and intracellular signalling.

Structure

6 week course - 6 hours of lectures or tutorials per week and 1 one-hour seminar.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination paper (70%) and in-course assessment - essays, problem solving, abstract of oral presentation (30%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor G M Hawksworth

Pre-requisites

BM 3006, PA 3003.

Notes

The practical work required in this course may pose difficulties to some students with disabilities. If this arises alternative arrangements will be made available. Any student wishing to discuss this further should contact the School Disability Co-ordinator.

Overview

This course covers aspects of toxicology relevant to pharmacology, for example topics likely to be included are: the toxicological significance of drug/xeno-biotic oxidation, neurotoxicity, immunotoxicity, immunopharmacology, developmental toxicology, molecular carcinogenesis and risk assessment.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures, 1 one-hour seminar, 1 one-hour tutorial per week and 1 four hour laboratory session.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination paper (70%) and in-course assessment - essays, laboratory reports, and problem solving (30%).

Credit Points

60

Course Coordinator

Dr D Shewan

Pre-requisites

BM 3006, PA 3003, PA 3802.

Co-requisites

BM 4004

Notes

(i) Only available to students in Pharmacology.
(ii) The practical work required in this course may pose difficulties to some students with disabilities. If this arises alternative arrangements will be made available. Any student wishing to discuss this further should contact the School Disability Co-ordinator.

Overview

A 10 week research project based on either Laboratory work or Library work. The students will learn laboratory and literature research techniques and present a thesis. The thesis is defended in an oral presentation.

Structure

10 weeks of 5 days per week in a Laboratory or Library.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment with contributions from thesis (75%) and practical work (25%).