CHEM CM205AIntroduction to Chemistry of Biology
Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Pharmacology M205A.) Introduction to chemical biology. Topics include computational chemical biology, utility of synthesis in biochemical research, peptidomimetics, designed reagents for cellular imaging, natural product biosynthesis, protein engineering and directed evolution, cell biology of metal ions, imaging metal ions in cells, metal-containing drugs. Concurrently scheduled with course C105.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
CHEM CM205A
- CHEM M205BIssues on Chemistry/Biology Interface
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.