What's difference between pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics?

Recently, two groups of university students fellow me for scientific training, one for pharmacokinetics, the other for pharmacodynamics. Please help me design the different scheme to train them, respectively. Many thanks.

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yycui

Welcome to Scientist Solutions Discussion Boards. What lines are you planning to train them upon? What will be the duration of training? If you can provide a more elaborated response, it will help the users get a better organized response for you.

  • For Pharmacodynamics - you can consider experiments and sessions focusing on the Ligand-Receptor Interactions, dose response analytics and biological effects.
  • For Pharmacokinetics - consider experiments and sessions focusing on the drug absorption, distribution, bioavailability and Excretion.
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@yycui I suggest about creating a module based on following lines

Aspect Pharmacokinetics (PK) Pharmacodynamics (PD)
Focus Drug movement in the body (ADME) Drug effects and mechanism of action
Software Training Phoenix WinNonlin, R, MATLAB SimBiology, NONMEM, GraphPad Prism
Practical Sessions PK data analysis, modeling, and dosing regimen design Dose-response analysis, receptor binding studies
Evaluation Model-based projects, clinical simulations Simulation projects, case studies