Pharmacology is the science concerned with the study of drugs which comes from natural sources such as plants, animals or marine organisms. During the study, the physical, chemical, and biological properties of these drugs are determined in preparation for their medicinal use in treating human diseases. The department offers a master's degree program and another to obtain a doctoral degree in pharmaceutical sciences (drugs).

Degree: Masters

Department admission requirements:
According to the rule Thirteen of the Unified Regulations for Postgraduate Studies in Saudi Universities, the student must have a bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences from King Saud University or from another recognized university, and must pass the personal interview from the department.

Study system: 

1. The study in the program is based on coursework over four semesters, followed by the thesis (the number of units is 24 study units).
2. There are three ways and these ways are line A, B, and C. (See Study Plan).

الخطة الدراسية:  

     المسار أ: المستوى (الفصل) الأول

 

المستوى( الفصل) الثاني

 

المستوى(الفصل) الثالث

 

المستوى (الفصل) الرابع

 

المسار ب:

 المستوى (الفصل) الأول

كما في المسار أ تماما.

 

المستوى( الفصل) الثاني

كما في المسار أ تماما.

 

المستوى (الفصل) الثالث

 

المستوى (الفصل) الرابع

كما في المسار أ تماما.

 

المسار ج:

 المستوى (الفصل) الأول

كما في المسار أ تماما.

 

المستوى( الفصل) الثاني

كما في المسار أ تماما.

 

المستوى(الفصل) الثالث 

 

المستوى (الفصل) الرابع
كما في المسار أ تماما.

وصف المقررات:
511عقر :  طرق الفصل المتقدمة   3 (3+0) 
يهدف هذا المقرر إلى دراسة الطرق الحديثة المستخدمة في فصل وتنقية النواتج الطبيعية وعلى هذا فهو يشتمل على دراسة مستفيضة لطرق الفصل الكروماتوجرافية الحديثة شاملة فصل المواد الغير متماثلة ضوئيا كما يشمل المقرر دراسة طرق الفصل غير الكروماتوجرافية مثل طرق الاستخلاص من الحالة الصلبة والحالة السائلة وكذلك طرق التقطير والتسامي والفصل الكهربي للأيونات والترسيب والبلورة والديلزة وغيرها .

512عقر :  طرق البحث  2(0+2) 
This course aims to supports the student with the necessary information that enables him to make safe experiments. In this course, the student separates a mixture of compounds and make the necessary spectroscopy by himself, and then learns the structural composition of these compounds. This course has been designed in a way that provides the opportunity for the student to become familiar with various laboratory and spectral tools and devices so that he is ready to undertake the scientific research required to obtain a master's degree.

513عقر :  العقاقير التحليلية    2(  1نظرى +1 عملى) 
It aims to study the various analytical methods of drugs of natural origin (plant or animal), whether methods of qualitative detection or methods of quantification of the components of those drugs. The study also includes the use of advanced microscopic methods (qualitatively and quantitatively) to evaluate these drugs 

514عقر : التعرف المخبري على مكونات النباتات الطبية     2( 0+2 ) 
The course aims to provide the student with laboratory experience in using the information which gain from his previous Technical studies compounds and identify them through their spectral properties and perform some chemical transformations on them. The student uses the necessary methods to ensure the purity of these materials and purifies what is proven to be impure, and then identifies their chemical composition by studying the various spectral images as well as conducting accurate analyzes and forming their derivatives with some reagents  

521عقر :  الكواشف المستعملة في كيمياء المنتجات الطبيعية  3(3+0) 
The purpose of studying this course is to deepen the student’s knowledge in the field of chemistry in order to qualify him to identify the structural formulas of natural product compounds. This is achieved by studying the mechanics of the effects and using the main reagents in the chemistry of natural products. These main reagents will be divided according to their reactions into several sections, such as redox reactions, among others. The course also includes the study of the names of the organic reactions related to these reagents 

522عقر : كيمياء التخمر       2( 2+0) 
The main purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the field of التخمرchemistry and how to use this field of producing many medically important compounds. This course also deals in some detail with the types of chemical reactions that a microbe can carry out on many types of medical drugs and how to apply this The concept is to study the metabolism of some compounds with medicinal efficacy using microbial models and then generalize them to mammals, including humans  

523عقر: موضوعات مختارة في كيمياء المنتجات الطبيعية     2( 2+0 )    
This course aims to provide the student with the latest knowledge in various topics of growing interest in natural products and medicinal plant research, where the student studies and discusses these topics in, and the quality of these topics is updated according to modern ways.

531عقر :  تعيين البنية الكيميائية للمنتجات الطبيعة –1     3(3+0) 
This course provides the student with the basic information used in determining the chemical structure of natural products. It enables the student to use the different information, infrared, ultraviolet rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectrometry in knowledge of the chemical structure of various natural compounds. The student must also be familiar with some simple chemical methods to ensure the correctness of the proposed chemical structure  

532عقر :  تعيين البنية الكيميائية لمنتجات الطبيعية –2     3( 3+0)
يعتبر هذا المقرر مكملاً لمقرر 531عقر ، حيث يهتم أساساً بتطبيق تقنيات الطنين النووي المغناطيسي أحادي وثنائي ألآتجاة لعنصري الهيدروجين و الكربون لمعرفة التركيب البنائي للمنتجات الطبيعية ومن هذه التقنيات :  APT, DEPTGL, INEPT, COSY, HMQC-NOESY, HMQC-TOCSY NOESY, HMQC, HMBC, INADEQUATE.   هذا بالإضافه إلى تقنيات أخرى . كما ويهتم هذا المقرر بالطنين النووي المغناطيسي لعنصر الكربون في العينة الصلبة والتصوير الطبي بإستخدام الطنين النووي المغناطيسي . بالأضافه إلى ماسبق ، فان هذا المقرر يهتم أيضاً بالطرق الكيميائية والطيفية لمعرفة التركيب الفراغي للمركبات بإستخدام تقنيات عديدة مثل SHER`S METHOD, CD, ORD, MO 

540عقر :  التشييد الحيوي لمكونات النباتات الطبية  3(3+0)
This course includes a detailed study of the various methods of biological construction of the various components of medicinal plants, as well as the methods used to determine the pathways of these reactions using radioactive and fixed isotopes. The study also includes the use of DNA technology (DNA) to construct those components. In addition, the study deals with methods of chemical classification and classification. Plant biochem

590عقر :  حلقة مناقشة       1(1+0)
Panel discussion of vital topics of interest in pharmacology and natural product chemistry. Each student prepares a topic to be selected from the important topics related to the major, then presents it for an hour and answers all the questions that are asked to him. In addition, students participate in a weekly debate on one of the topics recently published in specialized scientific journals and periodicals 

591عقر : تطبيقات الحاسب الآلي في دراسة المنتجات الطبيعية    2( 0+2 )  
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the basic components of the computer and train him on the available programs related to natural products. These programs include what is related to the office survey, the survey of the infrastructure of the vehicles, the drawing of space shapes of the infrastructure, the diagrams, the methods of naming the vehicles according to the international systems, the storage of information in their own rules and how to retrieve it.  

592عقر : البحث المكتبي في كيمياء المنتجات الطبيعية   1( 0+1 ) 
This course aims to provide the student with all the increasing knowledge about sources of information that deals with the chemistry of natural products and includes printed sources (books and periodicals) as well as computer resources and its programs. In this way, the student can search and check the information available on the subject under study

Methods for constructing complex bioactive molecules compounds 3 (3 + 0)      
This course is designed to analyze modern methods of constructing natural compounds or their derivatives by following a construction strategy to develop ways to gradually simplify complex compounds to reach elementary compounds with which to build and construct large molecules.