ProgramCIP 51.2004

Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

A program that focuses on the application of chemistry to the study of biologically and clinically active substances, biological and pharmacological interactions, and the development of associated research methods, techniques, and clinical trial procedures. Includes instruction in organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular graphics, rational drug design, toxicology, molecular biology, pharmacology, enzyme mechanisms, receptor theory, neurochemistry, drug metabolism, drug synthesis, biological mechanisms of drug action, research tools and techniques, and laboratory safety.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (MS), Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (PhD).