- About
- Research
- Research Overview
- Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
- Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry Overview
- Discovering Enzyme Substrates and Functions
- Discovering Protein Ligands to Probe and Alter Function
- Discovering Enzyme Activators
- Analyzing Mechanisms of Drug Resistance via Chemical Biology
- Analyzing Enzyme Conformational Dynamics, Substrate Binding, and Catalysis
- Effective Drug Targeting of Pathogens via Medicinal Chemistry
- Computational Chemistry and Biology
- Computational Chemistry and Biology Overview
- Modeling protein regulation via allostery and post-translational modifications
- Visualizing and integrating bioinformatics and biomolecular data
- Modeling membrane permeation to optimize pharmacokinetics
- Determining enzyme function by predicting substrate specificity
- Physical Biology
- Protein and Cellular Engineering
- Protein and Cellular Engineering Overview
- Monitoring enzyme activity and disease biomarkers
- Generating human proteome antibodies via phage display and directed evolution
- Globally analyzing and dissecting apoptosis
- Proximity tagging of protein-protein interactions
- Investigating cellular interactions in tissues
- Creating fluorescent probes targeting the genome and key bio-pathways
- De novo design of catalytic and membrane proteins
- Probing and modulating membrane proteins
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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
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