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, spanning 1.5 years and consisting of five full-time quarters.

Year 1
Summer	12 units: AI Comp Drug & Disc 200: Foundations of Computational Biology (4 unit) AI Comp Drug & Disc 208: Critical Topics in AI (3 unit) AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 202: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Principles (4 units) AI Comp Drug & Disc 209: Ethics in AI/ML (1 unit)
Fall	15 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) BMI 206: Statistical Methods for Bioinformatics (4 units) AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 223A: AI and ML for Capstone Innovation: Drug Discovery & Pharmaceutical Applications (3 units)
Winter	15 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 (3 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 (3 units)
Spring	11 units: AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 206: RWD/RWE Mining and Analysis (3 units) AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 207: Advanced Omics Analysis and Systems Pharmacology (4 units) AI Comp Drug Disc & Dev 223C: Emerging Technologies and Capstone Projects (4 units)
Year 2
Summer	3 units: Capstone project