PHRM 583 - Phrm Sci: Immunology & Toxicology

2.5 credit(s)
Builds on the basic principles of cellular and molecular immunology taught in PHRM 568 and emphasizes the pathophysiology of autoimmune diseases. The major drug classes and agents used clinically for the treatment of immunologic disorders (e.g. immunosuppresive drugs including steroids) are introduced together with pertinent chemical properties/stucture-activity relationships, and pharmacology including: mechanism of action, drug action, adverse effects, key differentiation factors between individual agents, contraindications, and clinically significiant drug-drug and drug-disease interactions. In addition, carcinogenesis, the pathophysiology of cancer, and the pharmacology of select targeted cancer therapy will be introduced.