Chemical science

Master's degree in "Medical chemistry"

Code

04.04.01

Awarded qualification

Master

Category learning:

Budget

Contract

The area of professional activity:

development of drugs for key medical needs, including stages from the development of innovative medicinal substances to the production of finished dosage forms on an industrial scale.

Master's graduates are prepared for types of professional activities:

organizational and management;

research;

production and technology.

The most important professional competence of the specialty:

organizational and managerial activities

ability to use basic principles of organization and management in the development and production of medicines.

Research activities:

ability to use modern tools of medicinal chemistry to design molecules with directional target-specific action and optimal pharmacological properties;

ability to use publicly available and commercial databases specialized chemical-biological and bibliographic information as a basis for the development of target-specific libraries of compounds;

ability to use special methods of constructing structures to create new compounds with the properties of the original molecules of prototypes;

capacity to use standard methods of organic synthesis to obtain a target chemical compounds;

capacity to use basic methods of biological screening to assess biological activity of the compounds;

capacity to provide legal protection of created intellectual property in accordance with applicable law;

readiness to coordinate the efforts of chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, engineers and clinicians at different stages of drug development.

Production and technological activity:

readiness to implement the results of laboratory research to pilot production;

readiness to develop production schedules in accordance with existing standards.

 

Options for employment of graduates:

research academic organizations, educational institutions of higher professional education, research and development and production departments of commercial organizations engaged in the development and production of medicines. Examples: REC Pharmacy of Kazan Federal University, Chemical faculty of Moscow State University, Institute of physiologically active compounds RAS, Saint-Petersburg chemical-pharmaceutical Academy, HTC Chemrar and many others.

 

Form of training:

Full-time study

 

Training period:

2 years

 

Entrance test:

Exam in organic chemistry