This document provides an overview of a lecture on drug design and development. It discusses four units that will be covered: drug design and development, drug targeting and identification, pharmacophore modeling, and computer aided drug design. It provides definitions of key terms like drug and pharmacology. It also summarizes the stages of new drug synthesis: drug discovery, pre-clinical development, and clinical development. Properties of an ideal drug and the role of bioinformatics in drug discovery are also briefly outlined.