Facts and Figures

Chair

Michelle Arkin, PhD

Research areas

Categories of department research:

• Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
• Computational Chemistry and Biology
• Physical Biology
• Protein and Cellular Engineering

Organized research unit (ORU)

UCSF School of Pharmacy

• Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI)

Research services and facilities

• Antibiome Center
• National Bio-organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR)
• Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI)
• Sequence Analysis and Consulting Service (SACS)
• Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC)

Research programs and collaborations

• Antibiome Center*
• National Bio-organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center*
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR)*
• Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI)*
• Sequence Analysis and Consulting Service (SACS)*
• Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC)*

*The technologies within each of these core facilities are advanced and improved by department faculty members and used by faculty members at UCSF and beyond to conduct their science.

Education programs

Includes education programs administered by or involving department faculty members:

PhD degree programs

Administered by the School of Pharmacy. (Faculty members teach in many PhD degree programs at UC San Francisco.)

• PhD in Bioengineering (BioE)
• PhD in Biological and Medical Informatics (Bioinformatics (BI) pathway)
• PhD in Biophysics (BP)
• PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB)
• PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (PSPG)

The five PhD programs administered by the School sit under the broader umbrella of the Quantitative Biosciences Consortium (QBC).

Professional degree programs

• Doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree program
• Professional degree programs in other UCSF schools

Postdoctoral programs

• Postdoctoral scholars, including fellows