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- Organization Overview
- Dean’s Office
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
- Department of Clinical Pharmacy
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Quantitative Biosciences Institute
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Facts and Figures
Founded
1872, first college of pharmacy in the western United States
Dean
Dean’s Office
Chairs and departments
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Organized research unit
Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI)
Nevan Krogan, PhD, director
Research areas
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
- Therapeutic Bioengineering
- Pharmacogenomics and Genomics
- Computational Biology and Systems Pharmacology
- Drug Development and Regulatory Sciences
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
- Computational Chemistry and Biology
- Physical Biology
- Protein and Cellular Engineering
Research services and facilities
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- 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
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
- Genetics of Asthma in Latino Americans Study (GALA)
- Limb Study
- Study of African Americans, Asthma, Genes and Environments (SAGE)
- The Kidney Project
- Pediatric Device Consortium
- UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (UCSF-Stanford CERSI)
- UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
- California Poison Control System (CPCS)
- Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine (TRANSPERS)
- Program for Outcomes, Pharmaceutical Economics, and Policy Studies (PrOPEPS)
- UCSF Medication Outcomes Center (MOC)
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry*
- Antibiome Center*
- National Bio-organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center*
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR)*
- Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI)
- 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 offered, administered, or closely aligned
Professional degree programs and combined degree programs
- Doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree program
- PharmD to PhD career path
- PharmD/Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR)
PhD degree programs
- PhD in Bioengineering (BioE)
- PhD in Biological and Medical Informatics (BI) (Bioinformatics pathway)
- PhD in Biophysics (BP)
- PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB)
- PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (PSPG)
Master’s degree program
Postdoctoral programs
- Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT) Postdoctoral Training Program
- Pharmacy Residency Program
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Regulatory Science (CERSI)
- Postdoctoral scholars program, including fellows
- UCSF - Genentech Clinical Development Fellowship Program
- UCSF - Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT) Postdoctoral Training Program
International
Career-development courses
- Drug Development: American Course on Drug Development and Regulatory Sciences (ACDRS)
- Pharmacokinetics: Pharmacokinetics for Pharmaceutical Scientists (PK Course)
- Tobacco Cessation: Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation
Instructional facilities
- Kanbar Center for Simulation and Clinical Skills, UCSF
- Thomas A. Oliver Informatics Resource Center (IRC)
- Instruction Laboratory
Patient care settings
Clinical expertise
- Adverse drug effects
- Alternative medicine
- Ambulatory care
- Ambulatory care pharmacy practice
- Anti-viral and antimalarial drugs
- Antibiotic management
- Anticoagulation
- Asthma
- Bone marrow transplantation
- Cancer
- Cardiology
- Clinical nutrition support
- Clinical pharmacokinetics
- Community pharmacy practice
- Critical care
- Diabetes
- Dietary supplements
- Disease prevention
- Doping control in sports
- Drug design
- Drug information
- Drug interactions
- Drug safety
- Drug testing
- Economics
- Endocrinology
- Epidemiology
- Epilepsy
- Evidence-based pharmacotherapy
- Family practice
- Gastroenterology
- Genetic testing
- Geriatrics
- Health policy
- Health promotion
- Hematology
- HIV antiretroviral therapy adherence
- HIV/AIDS
- Hypertension
- Infectious diseases
- Integrative and complementary therapies
- Malaria and HIV co-infection
- Managed care
- Managed care pharmacy
- Medicare outreach
- Medicare Part D
- Medication management
- Neurology
- Obesity
- Oncology
- Organic chemistry
- Pediatrics
- Pharmaceutical compounding
- Pharmacotherapy
- Poison control system management
- Poison control
- Primary care
- Psychiatry
- Targeted therapies
- Tobacco cessation
- Toxicology
- Women’s health