Drugs & Genetics: An Introduction to Personalized Medicine

In Drugs & Genetics you’ll learn about the core principles of pharmacology and pharmacogenomics. We’ll discuss topics such as the mechanisms of drug action, drug metabolism, polymorphisms and genome-wide association studies. We’ll examine how genetic information is utilized to inform disease prevention and treatment, including ethical and practical considerations. The laboratory will involve using pharmacological, molecular and genetic approaches to explore concepts discussed in lecture. You will have the opportunity to use zebrafish to rank drug potency and efficacy, and based on clinical information, you will create and characterize larval zebrafish epilepsy models for small-scale drug screening studies