NIPER to hold workshop on pharmacoinformatics in drug design

EPP News Bureau - Mumbai

The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) is organising a workshop on Pharmacoinformatics in Drug Design on April 14-16, 2005.

The field of pharmacoinformatics is emerging as a new discipline as a result of the integration of bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, chemogenomics, in silico ADME/T methods, pharmacy informatics etc especially catering to the needs of the pharmaceutical sciences by providing the scientific and technical tools, for target-specific drug design and development.

Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) is an important field, which took shapes as an offshoot of theoretical chemistry, but with wide ranging applications. The various aspects of this field include quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics, molecular docking, 3D QSAR (Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship), conformational analysis, etc. The present workshop focuses on these topics.

The workshop would not only teach the technical background of the above methods but also provide practical training in using the important software based on the above topics. Everyday during the workshop, there will be 4-5 lectures and four hours of practical training. The software will be mainly PC based, so as to reach wide range of participants. Some specific examples will be taken up using the SGI based platform also.

Scientists, researchers, teachers and students who are involved in research and the areas related to medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, natural products, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, biotechnology etc from academic, scientific and industrial setups can attend the workshop.

For details contact:
Dr M Elizabeth Sobhia
NIPER
Sector 67, SAS Nagar, Punjab 160062, Tel: 0172-2214684,
Ext: 2018, 2067 Fax: 0172-2214692
Email: pidd05@niper.ac.in