GVK Bio introduces 3 new courses

Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad, December 11, 2001

For the first time in India, bioCampus, the training division of gvk bio, has introduced three new courses which cover the computational and experimental aspects of the entire drug discovery cycle form Gene to Drugs. These new courses address the growing need of manpower in biotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations worldwide.

The new courses are:

Bioinformatics
Genome & Proteome Analysis
Protein Modeling & Rational Drug Design

The Bioinformatics course imparts training in software applications development, mathematics, statistics, cell & molecular biology and other bioinformatics tools. The course is designed to address the growing need of manpower with such skill sets for the biotech and pharmaceutical organizations.

Genome & Proteome Analysis imparts training in the analysis of genomics and proteomics data. The course also includes several experiments in wetlab and computational methodologies. Many biotech and pharmaceutical organizations are trying to analyze such data to produce new targets using in -silico tools. The course addresses the shortage of trained manpower in the above tools.

Protein Modeling & Rational Drug Design course involves the study of discovery strategies and methodologies to design an lead molecule using in-silico methods without the available experimental approaches. Computational approaches to the drug discovery & design processes such as analogue based designs and pharmacophore based studies are covered in this module.