<p>What are the schools that are good for Medicinal Chemistry? Preferably in the West Coast or places that have warmer weather.</p>
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<p>How about UCSF? You can do your MD/PhD there. You can think of medicinal chemistry as medicine + chemistry. Hence, you can get your MD combined with a PhD in chemistry at UCSF. </p>
<p>You can also complete an MD/PhD at Stanford or any of the other UC’s that have medical schools.</p>
<p>All of these are excellent</p>
<p>University Of California, San Francisco
Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Location: San Francisco, CA </p>
<p>University of California, San Diego
Program: Medicinal Chemistry
Location: La Jolla, CA </p>
<p>Scripps Institute
Chemistry or Chemical Biology
Location: La Jolla, CA </p>
<p>University Of Washington
Program: Biomolecular Structure and Design
Location: Seattle, WA </p>
<p>University of Arizona
Program: Drug Discovery and Design
Location: Tucson, AZ </p>
<p>Oregon State University
Program: Medicinal Chemistry
Location: Corvallis, OR</p>
<p>Here are some other notable programs:</p>
<p>The Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and the Division of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Auburn University
The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of California at San Francisco
The Department of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry at the University of Iowa
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry at University of Kansas
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Maryland at Baltimore
The Interdepartmental Program in Medicinal Chemistry at The University of Michigan
The Program in Medicinal Chemistry at The University of Minnesota
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry at University of Mississippi
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry at State University of New York at Buffalo
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Ohio State University
The Medicinal Chemistry Department at Purdue University
The Medicinal Chemistry Graduate Program at Rutgers University
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Southern California
The Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemsitry at the University of Toledo
The Medicinal Chemistry Department at University of Utah
The Medicinal Chemistry Department at Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Wayne State University</p>
<p>medicinal chemistry as in chem bio? or organic chem?</p>
<p>some schools that have strong chemistry and biology programs are:</p>
<p>the scripps research institute (warm weather)
stanford (warm weather)
caltech (warm weather)
berkeley (warm weather)
u of illinois-uc
u of wisconsin-madison
uc san diego (warm weather)
uc los angeles (warm weather)
uc irvine (warm weather)
john hopkins</p>
<p>what i would recommend:</p>
<p>the scripps research institute
reason: many great professors doing work in chem or bio, no undergraduates so no TA requirement, few class requirements and not much stress on grades you get, some really great organic chemists there (like B. Sharpless), tsri is also filthy rich, a lot of industry located in vicinity hiring medicinal chemists, located by the ocean
–bad things: doesn’t feel like an academic place but rather an industry start-up, no low-cost graduate housing, san diego is not really an urban area, no undergraduates</p>
<p>UCB
reason: great science going on there, many interesting professors, many people from UCB go on to become professors themselves which means that they probably receive very good graduate education there (since it takes more to become a professor than to find job in industry), large student population, variety, location in the bay area
–bad things: they get twice as many students as they intend to keep and then weed them out by subjecting them to stress, cramped laboratories, yucky and costly housing, many beginning professors are slave-drivers because they wanna get tenure</p>
<p>Caltech
reason: pretty much everyone there is unique and interesting in their research, people get PhD’s in short amount of time, produces by far the most amount of professors who have populated chemistry departments around the country (which means even better education than at UCB), pasadena is a great place to live (has this european city feel to it), on-campus housing guaranteed for 1st years, beautiful campus which has this ivy league feeling to it [and if you’ve a female there are 2 guys to 1 girl ratio there]
–bad things: effort intensive (some profs want you to be at work 8am-10pm), five independent research proposals, very small place with little visible socializing going on, many beginning professors are slave-drivers because they wanna get tenure, less biological chemistry than UCB or TSRI</p>