From Molecules to Medicines
Cheminformatics & Organic Chemistry for Drug Discovery. Build chemical intuition to reason about molecules like drug designers.
Molecules as decisions, not drawings
Why This Matters
Sets the mental model: design is constraint navigation, not structure drawing.
Core Readings
- Medicinal Chemistry: A Molecular and Biochemical Approach (Chapter 1)
by Patrick, G.
- The Art of Drug Design (Review)
by Wermuth et al.
What This Gives Participants
- Reason chemically
- Read SAR critically
- Use cheminformatics without being fooled
- Collaborate intelligently with AI
- Design molecules with intent