The University of California, San Francisco, has produced many of the world’s leading researchers, clinicians, and educators for over a century. Graduates of the School of Pharmacy join a rich UCSF alumni community (UCSF Alumni Association) known for welcoming new alums with career-long social and professional support.

Find opportunities to mentor and network with UCSF Connect, the official networking platform for the UCSF community.

Video: In his 4th year of pharmacy school, Matthew D, Sugidono, PharmD ’19, left, used UCSF Connect to network with alum Renée L. Riley, PharmD ’12.

PharmD Alumni

Since the UCSF School of Pharmacy graduated its first student in 1874, school alumni have brought their skills and compassion to patients and institutions worldwide.

Each year, we are proud to induct young pharmacists into the UCSF Pharmacy Alumni Association. We encourage them to stay connected, reinforcing the social bonds that enable our profession to maximize its benefits to communities near and far.

Meet some of our alumni:

• Serena Huntington, PharmD '11: How a PharmD Alum Leads Public Health Innovation Through Poision Control
• Jake Beverage, PharmD ’08: Interrogating Chemistry in the Name of Better Drugs
• Maria Lopez, PharmD ’01: A Specialty Pharmacist for SF’s Underserved
• Melissa Montez,PharmD '00: Alum Finds Purpose in Patient Care Through Hematology at Genentech
• Mahtab Jafari, PharmD ’94: Inspiring the Next Generation of Health Leaders
• Iris Tam, PharmD ’91: The Courage to Leap

Meet more alumni. 

Graduate Program Alumni

The UCSF Graduate Division Alumni Association is the central network for the school’s PhD graduates.

Doctoral students from the five PhD programs in the Quantitative Biosciences Consortium have a variety of career paths open to them upon graduation, ranging from academic research to industry science, government regulation, and science law, consulting, and management.

• Bioengineering alumni
• Biological and Medical Informatics alumni
• Biophysics alumni
• Chemistry and Chemical Biology alumni
• Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics alumni

Labs

The school's three academic departments — the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, and the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences — are home to over 100 research groups that help train tomorrow’s innovators in science and biomedicine. Graduate alumni can connect with their laboratories via our School of Pharmacy faculty list.