The Bay Area Youth Science (BAYS) Program successfully launched an eight-week, paid summer internship for rising high school juniors and seniors from KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory to conduct research in labs at UCSF. Research projects ranged in topics from drug discovery and design, cancer biology, computational chemistry, infectious disease treatments, COVID-19 therapeutics, structural biology, protein biophysics, and more!

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BAYS is a joint partnership among:

UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

UCSF Center for Science, Education, and Outreach

UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute

Black Excellence in STEM at UCSF