Curriculum

Our program is a full-time, in-person commitment at UCSF's Mission Bay Campus, consisting of five full-time quarters.

This program will feature 4 quarters of didactic coursework followed by 1 quarter of a capstone project, hosted either in industry or academia.

Quarters

Summer 2026
12 units:
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 206: RWD/RWE Mining and Analysis (4 units)
- AI Comp Drug & Disc 208: Critical Topics and Ethics in AI (4 units)
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 202 : Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Principles (4 units)
Fall 2026
12 units:
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 201: Techniques in Drug Discovery (3 units)
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 203: Applied Machine Learning (5 units)
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 223A : AI and ML for Capstone Innovation: Drug Discovery & Pharmaceutical Applications (4 units)
Winter 2027
17 units:
- BMI 212: Deep Learning for Biological and Clinical Research (5 units)
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 204 : Application of Computation and AI at Different Stages of Drug Discovery and Development (4 units)
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 205: Modeling for Drug Development (4 units)
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 223B: Practical Modules of AI and ML for the Biotech Industry (4 units)
Spring 2027
7 units:
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 207: Advanced Omics Analysis and Systems Pharmacology (4 units)
- AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 223C : AI and ML Research Frontiers (3 units)
Summer 2027
14 units:
- Capstone project (AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 223D)