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Seminar: Drug Designing and Computational Chemistry
Date: October 20, 2015
Venue: Genpact Room
No. of Participants: 30
Speaker: Dr. Ratni Saini, CDRI, Lucknow
The design of new drugs involves several steps. Variety of concepts of Chemistry is used in drug designing. The seminar is planned to acquaint the students with the drug development process and role of computational chemistry in it.
Drug designing is referred to as an inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target. Nowadays, rational drug design is often done with the help of software. Computer aided drug design i.e. CADD helps scientists in minimizing the synthetic and biological testing efforts by focusing only on the most promising compounds. Besides explaining the molecular basis of therapeutic activity, it also predicts possible derivatives that would improve activity.
After the seminar, the students were able to understand the process of drug development and use of computational chemistry in molecular modeling.
