September 2012

Facts and Figures

Michelle Arkin, PhD Categories of department research: Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry Computational Chemistry and Biology Physical Biology Protein and Cellular Engineering UCSF School of Pharmacy Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) National Bio-organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR) Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI) Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) National Bio-organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center*

Administration

The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry is one of three departments in the UCSF School of Pharmacy and is under the administrative oversight of the department chair, who reports to the School’s dean. The dean reports directly to the UCSF chancellor, who reports to the UC president, who is accountable to the Regents of the University of California. The School of Pharmacy—together with the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry, the Graduate Division, and UCSF Health—form UCSF, which is one of 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system.

Contact Us

UCSF Genentech Hall Box 2280 600 16th St Rm 518 San Francisco CA 94158

Locations

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty members conduct research and teach students both at the UCSF Mission Bay and Parnassus campuses, and they collaborate internationally. The main department office is at the UCSF Mission Bay campus, where the majority of department faculty members and staff work.

Honors and Awards

International honors and awards National honors and awards State and regional honors and awards UC San Francisco awards School of Pharmacy awards International fellows and members National fellows and members Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2019: Michael Keiser, PhD Collaborative Science Award: Steven Altschuler, PhD; Lani Wu, PhD Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, Protein Society 2021: Lei Wang, PhD 2016: Charles S. Craik, PhD Hans Neurath Award, Protein Society 2003: James Wells, PhD

Shu receives NIH New Innovator Award to study protein interactions

Fri Sep 14, 2012

Xiaokun Shu, PhD, has been named a recipient of the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator award, which will provide up to $1.5 million in research funding over the next five years.

Shu, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, will use the funding to develop a new technology to identify dynamic interactions between proteins in human cells.