New Drug Discovery Course The Department of Biological Sciences began offering a new Drug Discovery course that was developed by Dr. Lukasz Ciesla in the spring of 2019. This research laboratory course gives students the opportunity to learn various approaches used in drug discovery from natural sources. Natural products, such as plant extracts, constitute an invaluable source of biologically active molecules and it is estimated that up to 70% of currently used medicines were first identified in nature. In 2015 … Continue reading New Drug Discovery Course