Message from the Chair  

The Department of Medicinal Chemistry welcomes and invites you to explore our educational and research opportunities, goals and accomplishments here. We strive to create new knowledge of diseases and to deliver new treatment and preventive strategies. Medicinal chemists use diverse skill sets to probe the molecular basis of disease and manipulate cellular processes using chemistry that may be translated to new medicines or preventive strategies in the clinic. The innovative and pioneering basic and applied research conducted by our faculty supports the education and training of highly skilled, diverse researchers and health care professionals in medicinal chemistry. Ph.D. students are usually accepted through the Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology Bioscience Graduate Programs. As part of the Health Sciences Center, our interdisciplinary research and education is carried out in state-of-art facilities: the L.S. Skaggs Pharmacy Institute also houses the three other departments in the College of Pharmacy and is in close proximity to collaborative departments in the School of Medicine. We welcome a diversity of students, staff and faculty to promote learning and innovation. Contact us about your goals and interest in biomedical research.