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Course description

This course emphasizes the application of organic synthesis to the development of pharmaceutical targets at both the medicinal and process chemistry levels. It examines the macromolecular targets of some of the more popular types of pharmaceutical therapies that exist today using case histories of modern drug molecules for each topic. For complete and current details about this Harvard Extension course, see the description in the DCE Course Search.
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Instructors

Craig Masse

Vice President of Discovery Research, Ajax Therapeutics
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