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