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PHRM 623 Fundamentals of Pharmacology

FUNDAMENTALS OF PHARMACOLOGY 623 (II)

Spring 2007

Time:                       Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 4:00–5:00 P.M.

Location:                 Pharmacology Seminar Room, M100 John Morgan

Course Director:    Jeffrey Field (8-1912; field@pharm.med.upenn.edu)

Starting Date:         January 8, 2007

Day        Date                                                   Lecture                                        Lecturer

Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism

Mon         1/8                    The Drug Development Pipeline                              Molinoff

Tue          1/9                    Pharmacokinetics/ Absorption                                 Robinson

Wed        1/10                  Pharmacokinetics/Distribution                                 "

Thu          1/11                  Pharmacokinetics/Metabolism                                 "

Mon         1/15                  No class (MLK Day)

Tue          1/16                  Pharmacokinetics problem set due                         Robinson

Wed        1/17                  Emerging Methods of Drug Delivery                        Muzykantov

Thu          1/18                  Phase I Metabolism: Cytochrome P450s                Song

Mon         1/22                  Phase I Metabolism                                                   "

Tues        1/23                  Phase II Metabolism                                                  "

Wed        1/24                  Phase II Metabolism                                                  "

Thu          1/25                  Metabolism problem set due                                    "

Mon         1/29                  Review (Robinson, Song)                                        

Tues        1/30                  Exam I                                                                         

Principles of Toxicology

Wed        1/31                  Principles of Toxicology                                             Penning

Thurs       2/1                    Biotransformation of Xenobiotics                             "

Mon         2/5                    Biotransformation of Xenobiotics                             "

Tues        2/6                    Nucleic Acid-Based Mechanisms                            Penning

Wed        2/7                    Toxicology Problem set Due                                     Penning

Thurs       2/8                    Neurodegenerative Disease                                    Giasson

Mon         2/12                  No class

Tues        2/13                  Redox Chemistry                                                        Ischiropoulos

Wed        2/14                  Redox Chemistry in Toxiciology                               "

Thu          2/16                  Review (Penning, others)                                         

Mon         2/19                  No class (Presidents' Day)

Tue          2/20                  Exam 2

Rational Drug design

Wed        2/21                  Molecular Shape and Symmetry                              Kung

Thu          2/22                  Molecular Structure Determination                           van Duyne

Mon         2/26                  Molecular Forces                                                       Axelsen

Tue          2/27                  Molecular Thermodynamics                                      "

Wed        2/28                  Molecular Graphics                                                    "

Thu          3/1                    Molecular Simulation                                                 "

Mon         3/5                    SPRING BREAK

Tue          3/6                    SPRING BREAK

Wed        3/7                    SPRING BREAK

Thu          3/8                    SPRING BREAK

Mon         3/12                  Docking and Scoring                                                 Mohan

Tue          3/13                  Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships           "

Wed        3/14                  No class                                                                      Axelsen

Thu          3/15                  No class                                                                      "

Fri            3/16                  Review (Axelsen, Kung)                                            "

Mon         3/19                  Exam 3

Systems Pharmacology

Tue          3/20                  System Biology Overview                                         Blair

Wed        3/21                  Statistics 1                                                                  Troxel

Thu          3/22                  Statistics 2                                                                  Troxel

Fri            3/23                  Computer Tutorial                                                      Axelsen

Mon         3/26                  Bioinformatics                                                            Pizarro

Tue          3/27                  Proteomics and Lipidomics Methodology              Blair

Wed        3/28                  Proteomics and Lipidomics of Cancer                    Blair

Thu          3/29                  Proteomics of Cardiovascular Disease                  Grosser

Mon         4/2                    Proteomics of Neurodegenerative Disease           Giasson

Tue          4/3                    Proteomics/metabonomics problem set due          Blair

Wed        4/4                    Genomics I                                                                  Eberwine

Thu          4/5                    Genomics II                                                                 Eberwine

Mon         4/9                    Genomics III                                                                Hogenesch

Tue          4/10                  Genomics problems/Review               Eberwine/Hogenesch

Wed        4/11                  Pharmacogenetics I                                                   Whitehead

Thu          4/12                  Pharmacogenetics II                                                  "

Mon         4/16                  Pharmacogenetics III                                                 "

Tue          4/17                  Pharmacogenetics IV                                                "

Wed        4/18                  Pharmacogenomics problem set due

Thu          4/19                  Review proteo/Pharmacogen                                   Whitehead/Blair

Mon         4/23                  Exam 4

Directory of Lecturers

Name                             Dept                          Phone              Email

Dr. Paul Axelsen               Pharmacology              898-9238            Axe@pharm.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Ian Blair                      Pharmacology              573-9885            ian@spirit.gcrc.upenn.edu

Dr. Jim Eberwine               Pharmacology              898-5437            eberwine@pharm.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Jeffrey Field                 Pharmacology              898-1912            Field@pharm.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Tilo Grosser                Pharm/ITMAT               573-7600            tilo@spirit.gcrc.upenn.edu

Dr. Benoit Giasson            Pharmacology              573-6012            giassonb@mail.med.upenn.edu

Dr. John Hogenesch          Pharmacology              573-1154            hogenesc@mail.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Harry Ischiropoulos      Pediatrics                    590-5320            ischirop@mail.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Hank Kung                  Radiology                    662-3096            kunghf@sunmac.spect.upenn.edu

Dr. Venkatraman Mohan    Sceata Technology       609 897 7960      vmohan@comcast.net

Dr. Perry Molinoff              Pharmacology                                       molinoff@pobox.upenn.edu

Dr. Vladimir Muzykantov    Pharmacology              898-9823            muzykant@mail.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Trevor Penning             Pharmacology              898-9445            Penning@pharm.med.upenn.edu

Angel Pizarro                    Pharm/ITMAT               573-3736            angel@mail.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Michael Robinson        Pharmacology              590-2205            robinson@pharm.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Greg van Duyne           Biochem & Biophysics  898-3058            vanduyne@mail.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Wenchao Song            Pharmacology              573-6641            Song@spirit.gcrc.upenn.edu

Dr. Andrea B. Troxel          Biostatistics                 573-0659            atroxel@mail.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Steven Whitehead        Pharmacology              898-2332            aswhitehead@pharm.med.upenn.edu