Faculty

David Agard agard@msg.ucsf.edu Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics Structure, function, and folding of proteins, chromosomes, and centrosomes
Nadav Ahituv nadav.ahituv@ucsf.edu Assistant Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Deciphering the role of gene regulatory sequences in human biology and disease
Patricia Babbitt babbitt@cgl.ucsf.edu Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Computational and experimental analysis of protein superfamilies for functional inference and enzyme design
Bruce Conklin bconklin@gladstone.ucsf.edu Associate Professor, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Medicine & Pharmacology Combining the tools of molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, and physiology to answer fundamental issues in pharmacology.
Joe DeRisi joe@derisilab.ucsf.edu Hughes Investigator, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics Malaria gene expression profiling, functional genomics, microarrays
Ken Dill dill@maxwell.ucsf.edu Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Statistical mechanics of biomolecules, protein and RNA folding, solvation
Hana El-Samad helsamad@biochem.ucsf.edu Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics Computational biology/stochastic biological dynamics; modeling of biological systems
Thomas Ferrin tef@cgl.ucsf.edu Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences. Director, Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Molecular graphics; scientific visualization; computational chemistry; bioinformatics; structure-based drug design
Kathy Giacomini kmg@itsa.ucsf.edu Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Molecular mechanisms of nucleosides transporters and organic cations, and pharmacogenomics
Matthew Jacobson matt@cgl.ucsf.edu Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Fundamental principles of physical chemistry and biological applications specifically modeling proteins and protein-ligand complexes using physics-based methods
Ajay Jain ajain@jainlab.org Professor, Cancer Research Institute, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Laboratory Medicine, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Computational approaches for drug design, molecular docking, molecular similarity, predictive pharmacology, and modeling genomic and molecular phenomena involved in cancer.
Cynthia Kenyon ckenyon@biochem.ucsf.edu Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics Genes and Cells that Regulate the Lifespan of C. elegans
Tanja Kortemme kortemme@cgl.ucsf.edu Assistant Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Computational biology, prediction and design of protein interactions and networks, synthetic biology
Nevan Krogan krogan@cmp.ucsf.edu Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Functional Insights from Genetic and Physical Interaction Maps
Hao Li haoli@genome.ucsf.edu Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology Bioinformatics, genome sequence analysis, gene regulation
Wendell Lim lim@cmp.ucsf.edu Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology Structure-function studies of potassium channels in mammalian heart and hippocampus.
Michael McManus mmcmanus@diabetes.ucsf.edu Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology Mammalian microRNA and RNA Interference Pathways
Katie Pollard kpollard@gladstone.ucsf.edu Associate Investigator/Professor, Gladstone Institute/Biostatistics/Institute for Human Genetics Evolutionary computational biology
Neil Risch rischn@humgen.ucsf.edu Professor and Director, Center for Human Genetics Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases in ethnic populations
Andrej Sali sali@salilab.org Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Computation grounded in the laws of physics and evolution to study the structure and function of proteins
Mark Segal mark@biostat.ucsf.edu Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics Genotype - phenotype association; comparing DNA fingerprints; analysis of gene expression / microarray data; statistical methods
Saunak Sen sen@biostat.ucsf.edu Associate Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Genetic analysis of complex traits, statistical genetics/genomics, Bayesian statistics, statistical computing
Brian Shoichet shoichet@cgl.ucsf.edu Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Molecular docking, structure-based inhibitor discovery, beta-lactamase activity-stability-evolution, and crystallography.
Chao Tang chao.tang@ucsf.edu Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences & Biochemistry and Biophysics Design and organization principles of biological systems; quantitative study and systems analysis of biological networks; systems biology.
Christopher Voigt cavoigt@picasso.ucsf.edu Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Design and evolution of gene circuits and pathways.
Jeff Wall wallj@humgen.ucsf.edu Assistant Professor, Institute for Human Genetics Evolutionary and Human Genetics
Jonathan Weissman weissman@cmp.ucsf.edu Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Mechanism of molecular chaperones and protein folding in vivo.