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PSC3132

Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

18 September 2017 26 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Dr Ben Capuano

Offered

Parkville

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Notes

This unit was previously coded as PSC3182 - Research Project

Synopsis

This unit aims to provide students with a foundation for the development of research skills in the area of medicinal chemistry. Students will conduct preliminary medicinal chemistry research encompassing one or more of the core competencies that underpin the degree program, namely chemical synthesis, analysis, structural biology and computational chemistry.

This will involve:

  • synthetic organic chemistry
  • structural biology
  • computational chemistry
  • pharmacological screening
  • x-ray crystallography
  • biochemistry.

Outcomes

At the end of this unit students will be able to:

  1. demonstrate an enhanced understanding and ability to interpret aspects of the basic science concepts supporting medicinal chemistry.
  2. competently undertake a review of the literature and present a comprehensive evaluation of the literature.
  3. demonstrate some basic skills in developing and planning a research project.
  4. competently use relevant analytical instrumentation, design and conduct experimental procedures and methodologies.
  5. undertake data manipulation and analysis and have a detailed understanding of the results.
  6. communicate the outcomes of the project in the form of an oral presentation and a written scientific report in the form of a journal publication.

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Assessment

Written report (mini-thesis): 60%; laboratory work: 20%; oral presentation; 20%

Workload requirements

Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Twenty 7-hour practical laboratories

Additional requirements:

  • Thirty hours of independent study (report writing and oral presentation)

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Ben Capuano

Prerequisites

PSC2021 Structural Organic Chemistry
PSC2031 Analytical methods
PSC2122 Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.monash.edu/pharm/current/