He is a Professor and chair in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at …

The Shokat lab uses chemical genetics to study and target signaling proteins, with the aim of finding new ways to treat human diseases. Many projects in the lab have focused on kinases, …

Research in our laboratory is focussed on the development of novel chemical tools to decipher signal transduction pathways on a genome-wide scale. The cellular machinery responsible for …

Kevan M. Shokat is currently an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California at San …

Kevan Shokat, Ph.D., is a scientist with expertise in cellular immunology. Learn about his role with the Stephenson Global Pancreatic Cancer Research Institute.

My laboratory has solved this fundamental problem for the largest family of enzymes in the human genome, protein kinases, by development of a strategy based on a combination of protein …

Dec 5, 2024 · For Kevan Shokat ’86, it was the time to hunt for a cure to COVID-19 by studying how the virus took over cells. “To be honest, it was just a great escape,” Kevan says. “When …

Research in the Shokat laboratory is focused on the discovery of new small molecule tools and drug candidates targeting protein/lipid kinases, GTPases, and RNA helicases. They utilize the …

Dec 12, 2025 · Kevan M. Shokat is Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco; Professor of Chemistry at the University of …

Dr. Shokat and his team selected a candidate drug, made some modifications to improve its fit and its ability to work in living organisms, and tested it in clinical trials. That drug became …