For students attending the course Advanced Receptor Pharmacology (4 credits) course code 4FF008

The aim of the course is is the deepening of the student's understanding of the receptor concept and its importance for mechanism and structure-based drug development.

Syllabus

Schedule

Link to schedule (Autumn 2024) The schedule for 2025 is published in August 2025.

 

About the course

The course focuses on pharmacodynamic core concepts such as drug effect, mechanisms for drug impact, agonists, antagonists, drug affinity, drug selectivity and drug tolerance, pharmaceutical target, drug receptor interaction and structure-function relationship. Advanced knowledge in receptor pharmacology is the basis for future drug discoveries including drug screening, hit optimisation and compound validation.

The course includes theoretical and practical aspects of receptor pharmacology of importance to a broad spectrum of future career alternative in academia and industry.

 The course starts October 6th 2025 and runs for 3 weeks with 100% tuition. 

Registration

Registration is mandatory in order to keep your place and participate in the course. You register yourself in Ladok. The registration is open from one week before the course starts and three days after.

More information about web registration.

Contact

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Paweł Kozielewicz

Course director
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Gunnar Schulte

Examinator

Administrator

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Sofia Pettersson

Education Officer

Course evaluation course analysis

Content reviewer:
06-02-2025