About the Center for Chemical Diversity

The Center for Chemical Diversity in the department of pharmaceutical chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, is building upon the department's historic strength in computational, structural, and molecular biology methods used in drug discovery to develop an interdisciplinary program for research at the frontier of chemistry and biology. Projects already under way could help challenge infectious diseases, cancer, heart disease, parasitic diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Underlying the work of Center scientists is the use of innovative and original techniques and applications that enable the process of drug discovery. To this end, the Center promotes programs that use developing technologies such as synthesis and assay of chemical libraries, combinatorial synthetic chemistry for the production of discovery libraries, new methods of target discovery, high throughput synthesis and screening for lead optimization, and array methods for studying drug function and metabolism.

Much of the Center's work focuses to date on drug discovery and combinatorial libraries.

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