We know that there are many new programs in chemical biology that are emerging all over the world. Tell your colleagues where you are doing chemical biology as well as the benefits of doing chemical biology at your institution.
Graduate Programs in Chemical Biology:
Many graduate programs offer doctoral degrees specializing in chemical biology. Here's the beginning of a list.
The University of California, Berkeley | The Chemical Biology Graduate Program
The CBGP offers incoming graduate students the opportunity to participate in three 10-week research rotations during the first year of study. Students can work with investigators in many departments on campus, including chemistry, cell biology, chemical engineering, bioengineering and molecular pharmacology. In addition, CBGP has designed an academic program, including a foundational course that introduces students to the latest topics in the field. Graduate students who participate in the program often carry single projects through multiple rotations during the first year, and sometimes even choose joint advisors as a result of their work. The program directors are Professors Carolyn Bertozzi and Michael Marletta
Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
The Johns Hopkins University | Chemistry-Biology Interface Program (CBI)
The CBI Program unites researchers throughout The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. CBI students choose research advisors from among 25 faculty carrying out research at the Chemistry-Biology Interface.
The Scripps Research Institute | Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
Massachussets Institute of Technology | The Broad Institute
The University of Michigan | Chemical Biology Doctoral Program
The University of California, San Francisco | Chemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate Program
Vanderbilt University | Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology
Personal Stories - Please record your name and location
Japan is a hot bed for chemical biology. C&EN recently ran a story about RIKEN and chemical biology research at that institute.
There are a lot of people doing Chemical Biology at the University of Michigan. Recently, the university created an interdepartmental Chemical Biology Doctoral Program.
I have done chemical biology in many places, starting with graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the laboratory of Laura Kiessling . Next I moved to Boston to the Harvard Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology (ICCB-Longwood), where I did my postdoc. Chemical biology is also now done at the Broad Institute - Chemical Biology Program . Finally, I did chemical biology in an industrial setting at Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc , a pharmaceutical company devoted to discovering new drugs for cancer.
As a graduate student in the CBGP at UC-Berkeley (see link above), I've been afforded a fantastic opportunity to blur the boundary between biology, chemistry and materials science. After rotating through three research groups, I started working for Professor Matt Francis in the Chemistry Department. My research focuses on employing self-assembling biomaterials as a scaffold for new nanoscale conducting devices. In particular, I use synthetic compounds to covalently modify viral scaffolds. - Patrick Holder, UCB CBGP, Berkeley, CA
I created the UsefulChem project as an initiative to carry out open source science based on current problems likely to have chemical solutions in the immediate future.This includes open discussion of strategies and objectives. Current projects fall in the chemical biology area and include the synthesis and testing of anti-malaria and anti-HIV compounds and the treatment of arsenic contaminated well water. The malaria project is currently getting the most attention. A briefing of the projects and ways of contributing are maintained on the UsefulChem Wiki. Discussion of the synthetic strategies and objectives is carried out in the UsefulChem Blog. Molecules under discussion are housed in the UsefulChem Molecules Blog. My lab has recently started to record our experiments as we do them in the UsefulChem Experiments Blog. Contributions from chemists and biologists are very much welcome. Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Drexel University.
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