Pharmacy

The course is designed for master’s students in Biology, in Chemistry or in Pharmacy, seeking practical and conceptual insight into computer-aided drug design, without having any computing skills.

This course introduces molecular simulation methods used in contemporary drug design, with a focus on understanding their capabilities and limitations. It offers a foundational overview of receptor-based and ligand-based computational strategies, including recent AI-driven tools.

Through accessible lessons and interactive activities (serious games, forum), students learn to run modeling calculations using cutting-edge programs via free webservers, to interpret simulation outputs and apply a structured pipeline for generating hypotheses in therapeutic compound development.

To complete their training, students will ideally form interdisciplinary teams to overcome two successive practical challenges :

"I am a biologist, I want to identify a drug candidate with activity on my identified biological target"

"I am a chemist, I want to identify a relevant (pathology)/biological target for my drug candidate"