Drug Discovery and Safety (DDS)

What is Drug Discovery and Safety (DDS)?

Drug Discovery and Safety combines aspects of chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, genetics and toxicology. The programme takes a multidisciplinary approach to create the drugs of the future. It makes use of the latest systems and developments in the fields of:

• Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
• Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• Bio-analytical Sciences
• Computer-aided Drug Design
• Molecular Toxicology

Your profile
You are interested in one of the aspects of drug discovery and development. You have a background in molecular toxicology, molecular pharmacology or chemistry. Developing new drugs is such a complex and wide-ranging process that it requires real specialists that are excellent team players: people with a broad perspective and who will do their utmost to tackle the diseases of tomorrow in an interdisciplinary environment. If you recognise yourself in the above profile, this master's programme in Drug Discovery & Safety will suit your interest.

Research topics

Next to becoming an expert in one of the specializations, Drug Discovery and Safety offers a unique multidisciplinary environment in which students from the different disciplines interact and learn all relevant aspects of developing new medicines. Some of the recent research topics are listed below.

Novel concepts in Drug Discovery

To study ligand (drug) interactions with receptors, signal transduction events, and novel concepts… read more

Computer simulations to better understand toxicology

Our computational chemists use computer simulation to investigate the structure and dynamics of cytochrome P450 enzymes... read more

Synthesis of new drugs for inflammatory diseases

Our synthetic chemists make series of organic compounds, many of which heterocyclic compounds… read more

Molecular modeling enables drug design for neurologic disorders

Our computational chemists use protein sequences, crystal structures and molecular modeling software to generate 3-dimensional models… read more

Towards drugs with reduced toxicity

Our molecular toxicologists use biochemical and analytical approaches… read more

Further information

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