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NSERC-CREATE TRAINING PROGRAM IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY AND BIOPHARMACEUTICAL
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University of Ottawa
Department of Chemistry
D'Iorio Hall
10 Marie Curie
Ottawa ON Canada
K1N 6N5

Tel.: 613-562-5728
Fax: 613-562-5170
chminfo@uottawa.ca

OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM

The development of new pharmaceuticals is an important fundamental requirement
in modern health and life sciences and technologies. Drugs are ubiquitous in
modern medicine. They are used to treat disease, as well as for disease
prevention and health maintenance, and constitute a significant part of Canada’s
health budget. For the patient, drug therapy is often preferable to surgical
intervention or hospitalization, and for many diseases represents the only
effective mode of treatment. Despite the successes of modern drugs, there still
exist therapeutic needs in most disease areas. These needs exist for many
reasons: pathogens may become resistant, drug side effects may be severe, drug
efficacy may be limited or no chemotherapeutic may be available at all. The
modern pharmaceutical industry is working to fill these therapeutic needs, and
requires trained scientists to find and develop the next generation of
chemotherapeutics.

This program is targeted to students who wish to enter the ethical
pharmaceutical, generic pharmaceutical or biotechnology sectors.

Our program is designed to provide our graduates with the same strong scientific
training they have always enjoyed, enhanced by introducing new courses in
industrially relevant areas such as process chemistry and drug development for
clinical trials. We plan to offer these courses in collaboration with major
Canadian pharmaceutical companies, to expose our graduates to material that is
otherwise not available in a university setting, and at the same time allow them
to observe how these companies operate. This should provide the opportunity to
meet some of the key researchers in the Canadian pharmaceutical sector.

The program has been designed to provide our graduates with a strong management
background. These young scientists will be leaders in the pharmaceutical and
biotechnology sectors. Our program will provide them with the knowledge,
understanding and tools to succeed and excel in an industry that is currently
maturing. This part of the program of study is being developed in collaboration
with the Telfer School of Management of the University of Ottawa.


Last updated: 2011.03.22