Michelle Arkin's Biography

Michelle Arkin, Director of the Small Molecule Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco

Michelle Arkin is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Director of Biology at the Small Molecule Discovery Center at UCSF. The Small Molecule Discovery Center is a research ‘colaboratory’ that works with academic and biotech investigators to develop small-molecule probes and drug leads. Michelle’s research is focused on structure/function and chemical biology of allosterically regulated enzymes and protein-protein interactions (PPI). Her lab also has a strong interest in developing probes and drug leads to address mechanisms of neurodegeneration, cancer, and parasitic disease. Michelle is involved in academic drug discovery as an investigator in the NCI’s Chemical Biology Consortium and the Tau Consortium, an editor of the NIH’s Assay Guidance Manual, and a board member of the Academic Drug Discovery Consortium.