The Royal Society of Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry Residential School takes place 2 - 7 June 2019, Loughborough, United Kingdom is a fantastic opportunity for anyone starting out or contemplating a career in Drug Discovery.

The school is designed for graduate and post-doctoral chemists with 1-5 years’ experience in the field of drug research. Drug discovery is an interdisciplinary subject so delegates from biological or computational backgrounds will benefit from attendance at the school. In addition, final year PhD students from pharmaceutical or organic chemistry contemplating a career in drug discovery are also encouraged to attend.

The course includes the following topics:

• Target Validation
• Computational Chemistry
• Biological Mechanisms
• Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism
• Screening of New Compounds
• Patents
• Molecular Biology in Medicinal Chemistry
• Exploiting a Chemical Lead
• Combinatorial Chemistry and Molecular Diversity
• Case Histories of Drug Discovery
• Toxicology in Drug Discovery
• Pharmaceutical Considerations in Drug Development
• Structure-guided Drug Design
• Physical Properties and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships
• Hints and Tips in Medicinal Chemistry

Full details here http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/33379/medicinal-chemistry-residential-school-2019.