Patricia Clement Babbitt is a Professor and Principal Investigator (PI) in the school of pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

[2][4][5][6][7][8] Patricia Babbitt earned a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1988 from the University of California, San Francisco[3][4] for research supervised by George L. Kenyon and Irwin Kuntz.

[3] Babbitt serves as the director of the UCSF bioinformatics and medical informatics graduate program.

[citation needed] She also serves on the advisory boards for the UniProt, InterPro[9] and MetaCyc databases, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientific review board, and as a deputy editor for PLOS Computational Biology.

[10] Her research interests include bioinformatics and computational biology.