Curriculum

Overview

The following curriculum is for the 2025 - 2026 academic year.

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

The Summer quarter will be a 10-week session, starting in early July 2025.

Quarters
Summer 2025	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 2025	12 units: AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 201: Techniques in Drug Discovery (3 units) AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 203: Fundamentals of Machine Learning (5 units) AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 223A: AI and ML for Capstone Innovation: Drug Discovery & Pharmaceutical Applications (4 units)
Winter 2025	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 2026	8 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 (4 units)
Summer 2026	14 units: Capstone project