Drug Discovery Research Institutes

Please tell me about the courses and faculties of the UC San Diego Drug Discovery Institute?

[Kiran Chandar]

The UC San Diego Drug Discovery Institute is one of best institute for the Drug Discovery and Research. This institute is located in La Jolla.

Participating Departments
Skaggs School for Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS)
Pharmacology
Biomedical Sciences
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Chemistry & Biochemistry
School of Medicine
Neurosciences

UCSD campus and La Jolla resources
Moores Cancer Center
Moores Cancer Center Medicinal Chemistry Group
Clinical and Translational Research Institute
La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
CalIT2
Protein Data Bank (PDB)
BindingDB
National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR)

Training Opportunities:

Drug Discovery and Development
Clinical Trials Design and Management
Clinical Trials Administration
Medicinal Chemistry Intensive Program


UCSD Courses

Biology
BICD 145. Laboratory in Molecular Medicine (4)
BIMM 118. Pharmacology (4)

Chemistry & Biochemistry
113/213. Physical Chemistry of Biological Macromolecules (4)
140CH; and Chem. 127 or 131 (113); or graduate standing (213).
118. Pharmacology and Toxicology (4)
143D. Molecular Design and Synthesis (4)
155/255. Synthesis of Complex Molecules (4)
157/257. Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry (4)
140C or 140CH (157); or graduate standing (257).
151. Molecules that Changed the World (4)
185/285. Introduction to Computational Chemistry (4)
216. Chemical Biology (4)
221. Signal Transduction (4)
246. Kinetics and Mechanism (4)

Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program

204. Evolution of Modern Concepts in Pharmacology (2)
228. Modern Drug Discovery Technologies (2)
229. Methods in Pharmacology (3)
230. Structural and Quantitative Pharmacology (4)
234. Practical Histopathology and Mouse Models of Human Diseases (2)
235. Pharmacogenomics (3)
255. Drugs and Disease (3)
264. Molecular and Cellular Basis of Disease (2)


Clinical Research
CLRE 250. Patient-Oriented Research I (2)
CLRE 252. Health Services Research (2)
CLRE 253. Biostatistics I (2)
CLRE 254. Biostatistics II (2)
CLRE 256. Patient-Oriented Research II (2)
277. Neuropsychopharmacology (4)
285. Clinical Trails: Issues and Dilemmas in Clinical Trials (3)


Pathology

PATH 220. Drugs and Disease: Nervous System Disease and Therapy (4)
PATH 228/PHAR 228/BIOM 228. Modern Drug Discovery Technologies (2)

Physics
172/272. Biophysics of Molecules (4-4)

Faculties:


Gerwick, William
Halpert, James
Handel, Tracy
Insel, Paul
McCammon, J. Andrew
Brown, Joan H.
Firestein, Gary
McCammon, J. Andrew
Taylor, Palmer
Taylor, Susan
Feher, Victoria
Albizati, Kim F.
Arzberger, Peter
Brenner, David
Carson, Dennis
Continetti, Robert
Dugan, Laura
Ettouati, Williams
Fenical, William
Gonias, Steven
Mehta, Ravindra
Mobley, William
Norman, Michael
Nguyen, Kathryn
Ohno-Machado, Lucila
Smarr, Larry
Subramaniam, Shankar
Webster, Nicholas
Abagyan, Ruben
Almutairi, Adah
Amaro, Rommie
Bandeira, Nuno
Best, Brookie
Bourne, Philip
Burkart, Michael
Capparelli, Edmund
Cheresh, David
Chien, Shu
Cohen, Seth
Dennis, Edward
Dixon, Jack
Dorrestein, Pieter
Durden, Donald
Feifel, David
Gaasterland, Terry
Gerwick, Lena
Ghosh, Gourisankar
Ghosh, Partho
Gianneschi, Nathan
Goldstein, Lawrence
Guan, Kun-Liang
Hermann, Thomas
Hook, Vivian
Iakoucheva, Lilia
Ideker, Trey
Jamieson, Catriona
Jensen, Paul
Joseph, Simpson
Karin, Michael
Kazemi-Esfarjani, Parsa
Komives, Elizabeth
Manchester, Marianne
McCulloch, Andrew
Molinski, Tadeusz (Ted)
Moore, Bradley
Newton, Alexandra
Nizet, Victor
Pajor, Ana
Palsson, Bernhard
Pevzner, Pavel
Reya, Tannishtha
Reed, Sharon
Reid, Tony
Simon, Melvin
Theodorakis, Emmanuel
Tor, Yitzhak
Trejo, JoAnn
Tsien, Roger
Tukey, Robert
Vinetz, Joseph
Wallace, Anne
Wang, Dong
Yaksh, Tony
Yang, Jerry
Zhang, Kang

Technologies
High-Throughput Screening Centers
Marine Natural Products
Computer Aided Drug Design

Address:
UC San Diego Drug Discovery Institute
9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla,
CA 92093 619-822-0622