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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026

Topic

The 2-semester Biology course provides the essential fundamental molecular biological knowledge for the pharmaceutical students. In the second semester some of the lectures are about the regulation of cell cycle and molecular biology of cancer. The main part of the second semester deals with the essential information on pharmaceutical genetics. This knowledge is important for pharmaceutical students to understand the mechanisms of actions of drugs and research on drug discovery and development.

Lectures

• 1. Cell signalling pathways - Pandur Edina
• 2. Intracellular signalling molecules - Pandur Edina
• 3.

  G protein coupled receptor molecules

  - Pandur Edina
• 4. Ca, cGMP - Pandur Edina
• 5.

  Enzyme coupled receptors, Ras

  - Pandur Edina
• 6.

  PI3 kinase, JAK-STAT signalling

  - Pandur Edina
• 7.

  Cell signalling and drugs

  - Pandur Edina
• 8.

  Cell signalling summary

  - Pandur Edina
• 9.

  Apoptosis I.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 10.

  Apoptosis II.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 11.

  Molecular biology of tumors I.

  - Pandur Edina
• 12.

  Molecular biology of tumors II.

  - Pandur Edina
• 14.

  Chromosomal disorders

  - Pap Ramóna
• 13.

  Basics of genetics

  - Pap Ramóna
• 15.

  Mendelian inheritance

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 16.

  Polygenic inheritance.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 17.

  Mitochondrial genetic disorders.

  - Poór Viktor Soma
• 18.

  Possibilities of treatments of genetic defects.

  - Poór Viktor Soma
• 19.

  Cellular organelles, membranes-summary

  - Pap Ramóna
• 20.

  Midterm exam

  - Pandur Edina, Pap Ramóna, Jánosa Gergely, Tamási Kitti, Horváth Adrienn (Farmakognózia)
• 21.

  Posttranslational modifications

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 22.

  Replication-summary

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 23.

  Repair-summary

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 24.

  Transcription-summary

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 25.

  Translation summary

  - Pandur Edina
• 26.

  Transport of proteins I.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 27.

  Transport of proteins II.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 28.

  Protein degradation

  - Jánosa Gergely

Practices

• 1.

  Western blotting.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 2.

  Western blotting.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 3.

  RNA isolation

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 4.

  RNA isolation

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 5.

  DNA isolation

  - Pandur Edina
• 6.

  DNA isolation

  - Pandur Edina
• 7.

  DNA digestion, agarose gel electrophoresis

  - Pandur Edina
• 8.

  DNA digestion, agarose gel electrophoresis

  - Pandur Edina
• 9.

  PCR I.

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 10.

  PCR II

  - Jánosa Gergely

Seminars

• 1.

  Cell cultures

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 2.

  Cell cultures

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 3.

  Pharmaceutical research

  - Pandur Edina
• 4.

  Pharmaceutical research

  - Pandur Edina
• 5.

  Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics I

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 6.

  Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics II

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 7.

  Genetic screening

  - Sipos Katalin
• 8.

  Cytogenetics

  - Sipos Katalin
• 9.

  Epigenetics

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 10.

  Familiar inheritance

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 11.

  Cell cycle-summary

  - Pap Ramóna
• 12.

  Cell divisions- summary

  - Pap Ramóna
• 13.

  Genetics summary I.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 14.

  Genetics summary II.

  - Pap Ramóna
• 15.

  Technical summary I

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 16.

  Technical summary II

  - Jánosa Gergely
• 17.

  Consultation

  - Pandur Edina
• 18.

  Consultation

  - Pandur Edina

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

The materials of the lectures, seminars, and practices are uploaded to Neptun Meet Street.

Notes

Electronic note on Pharmaceutical Biology can be found on Neptun Meet Street.

Recommended literature

Cooper GM: The Cell: A Molecular Approach, 2nd edition, PubMed

Elliott WH, Elliott DC: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3rd edition

Thompson & Thompson: Genetics in Medicine

Craig NL: Molecular Biology, Principles of Genome Function, OUP 2010

Young ID: Medical Genetics

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Writing one midterm exam during the semester.

Mid-term exams

One midterm exam is compulsory during the semester.

Making up for missed classes

According to personal agreement

Exam topics/questions

No examination questions are assigned. The material for the examination is based on the lectures and seminars. Examination questions will be discussed in consultation classes during the semester.

The exam will include a biology concept pop-up (minimum requirement test), for which a glossary of terms will be issued at the beginning of the semester.

Examiners

• Horváth Adrienn (Farmakognózia)
• Jánosa Gergely
• Pandur Edina
• Pap Ramóna
• Tamási Kitti

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Jánosa Gergely
• Pandur Edina
• Pap Ramóna
• Sipos Katalin
• Tamási Kitti