Natural Products In Medicinal Chemistry

AY2019/2020 Semester 2

The module will expose the students to fundamental concepts and frontiers in modern biochemistry and natural product biosynthesis, with the objective of equipping the students with essential analytical skills for dissecting the structure-function relationship in natural products enzymes and analyzing and annotating biosynthetic pathways. Textbooks and reading materials were chosen accordingly to foster the students? interest in the research areas of drug discovery and natural product biosynthesis.