Facts and Figures

Chair

Michelle Arkin, PhD⁸

Research areas

Categories of department research:

• Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry⁹
• Computational Chemistry and Biology¹⁰
• Physical Biology¹¹
• Protein and Cellular Engineering¹²

Organized research unit (ORU)

UCSF School of Pharmacy

• Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI)¹³

Research services and facilities

• National Bio-organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR)¹⁴
• Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI)¹⁵
• Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC)¹⁶

Research programs and collaborations

• National Bio-organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center*
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR)*¹⁴
• Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI)*¹⁵
• Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC)*¹⁶

*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 education¹⁷ programs administered by or involving department faculty members:

PhD degree programs

Administered by the School of Pharmacy. (Faculty members teach in many PhD degree programs¹⁸ at UC San Francisco.)

• PhD in Bioengineering (BioE)¹⁹
• PhD in Biological and Medical Informatics (BMI)²⁰
• PhD in Biophysics (BP)²¹
• PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB)²²
• PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (PSPG)²³

The five PhD programs administered by the School sit under the broader umbrella of the Quantitative Biosciences Consortium (QBC)²⁴.

Professional degree programs

• Doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree program²⁵
• Professional degree programs in other UCSF schools

Postdoctoral programs

• Postdoctoral scholars, including fellows²⁶