Careers
Our graduates work in a variety of top tiered companies. Some choose to go on to graduate school as well.
Employers
Our graduates get hired all over the place. Here's a partial list:
- Chevron
- Genentech
- Gilead Sciences
- Innova Dynamics
- Quidel
- SF Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
- University of California San Francisco
- Intel
- Harpoon
- Therapeutics
- Illumina
- Lygos Inc.
- AstraZeneca
- Teach for America
- Peace Corps
- Verily Life Sciences
- Ligand Pharmaceuticals
- Henkel Electronic Materials
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Bionova Scientific
- Allure Labs Inc
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Gritstone bio
- Willlow Biosciences
Research Cancer
At many universities, only graduate students do research. At USF, undergraduate students do research, too. Meet three of them — including Corrina Smith, a Process Chemist at Erasca, who is working to shut down a pathway in the body in which cancer cells travel.
Process Chemist, Erasca
Graduate Schools
Many of our graduates study further. Here's a partial list:
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- California Institute of Technology
- Columbia University
- Keck Graduate Institute
- Kings College (London)
- Loyola University Chicago
- Mayo Clinic
- North Carolina State University
- Northwestern University
- Oregon State University
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Syracuse University
- Tufts University
- University of California Berkeley
- University of California Davis
- University of California Irvine
- University of California Los Angeles
- University of California San Diego
- University of California Santa Cruz
- University of Miami
- University of Oregon
- University of the Pacific
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin Madison
- Yale University
I am currently part of the Development Sciences Rotation Program at Genentech. It is a two-year program for recent undergraduates that allows you to rotate in different departments and learn about biotechnology and the drug development process."
Hayat Elqossari ’22