Course Description
This course is part of the Drug Discovery and Pharma Management master course at UCL School of Pharmacy

Director, Honorary Professor at UCL School of Pharmacy
Klara Valko
Leaving GSK
after 22 years of service, she is now founder director of Bio-Mimetic Chromatography
Ltd
providing data analysis, biomimetic HPLC method development and
measurements, in vivo drug
distribution modelling and various courses for pharmaceutical companies. She is
an Honorary Professor to the UCL
School of Pharmacy since 2004; leading the Physchem/ADME module for the Drug
Discovery MSc course. She has developed biomimetic HPLC methods for high
throughput measurements of serum albumin, glycoprotein and phospholipid
binding. She invented the Chromatographic Hydrophobicity Index (CHI) for the fast
determination of a compound’s lipophilicity using generic gradient reversed
phase chromatography. She has built mathematical statistical models based on
measured properties to predict human in
vivo drug distribution, such as, volume of distribution, DRUGeff max
and tissue/plasma partition. She has contributed to the Drug Efficiency Index
(DEI) concept and dose estimation based on DEI. She has published over 100
papers that have achieved over 3000 citations. She has written a book on
“Physicochemical and Biomimetic Properties in Drug Discovery; Chromatographic
Techniques for lead optimization” published by Wiley in 2014. Currently, she is
working on the second edition of the “Handbook of Analytical Separations”
Volume 1 “Separation Methods in Drug Synthesis and Purification” published by
Elsevier.
Course curriculum
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Lipophilicity and biomimetic properties supporting drug discovery
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Welcome to the course!
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How to use this course
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Course slides Chater 1-3
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Chapter #1a
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Early drug discovery and lipophilicity
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Test your learning on lipophilicity and its measurements
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Chapter #1b
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Test you learning on biomimetic lipophilicity
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Chapter #2
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Property forecast Index and biomimetic properties
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Test your learning
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Chapter #3
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Abraham solvation equation model for comparing various lipophilicity measurements
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Test your learning
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Next steps
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Before you go...
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Questions and answers about lipophilicity and biomimetic properties
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