Our Department
Our Department consists of a diverse group of faculty members, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, and staff working at the interface of chemistry and biology.
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry was previously home to the Editorial Offices of ACS Infectious Diseases and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.
We are part of the College of Pharmacy and University Health Sciences, which house nationally and internationally acclaimed programs in the areas of biochemistry, neuroscience, pharmacology, virology, immunology, cancer biology, structural biology, and drug delivery.
The University of Minnesota has one of the largest Academic Health Centers in the United States, and the Department of Medicinal Chemistry is proud to contribute to its success.
Our Graduate Program has been awarding PhD degrees to students for over seventy-five years and has a long and distinguished history of being among the top medicinal chemistry programs in the country.
Offices & Labs for the Department of Medicinal Chemistry can be found in CCRB, Weaver-Densford Hall, and 717 Delaware St.
Our research and practice focuses on:
A defining feature of our department are our faculty's incredibly diverse and highly specialized research interests.
Many are considered subject matter experts in their discipline and their interdisciplinary cutting-edge research changes lives.
This also affords our students a solid foundation from which to develop and explore their own scientific and professional interests, both in the classroom and in the laboratory.
Our students leave well prepared for the evolving multidisciplinary research of the pharmaceutical industry and academia.
Research ethics at the University of Minnesota. We are committed to protecting research participants, upholding ethical standards, and improving our practice at every step of our work.