Joan Valentine, the first female faculty member in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was recently featured in a video by her alma mater, Princeton University.
In the opinion piece, Professor Patrick Harran and his group were recognized for their “highly creative approach to macrocycle synthesis”.
Postdoc Maher El-Kady (Kaner Group) was recently featured for his contributions to the development of super batteries that are safer and longer lasting.
On February 26, 2018, the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted the second event of their Navigating Graduate School Lunch Hour Series.
Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Founding Executive Director of the STEM Education, Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI, gave the February 27th seminar.
Collaboration with researchers from China has led to development of device which could illuminate the mechanism of important chemical and biological processes.
On the occasion of Professor Raphael “Raphy” Levine’s 80th birthday, a symposium will be held in his honor at the ACS national meeting in Boston this August.
Professor David Baker (University of Washington) gave the Winter 2018 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Friday, February 9th.
Students are following a new curriculum which allows them to pursue independent group research projects rather than simply following established lab procedures.
In the prestigious journal, Kosuri’s team of scientists report on the innovative low-cost method of building gene sequences which they developed.
Professors Ellen Sletten and Hosea Nelson are two of five UCLA assistant professors selected to receive prestigious 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships.
Our Undergraduate Summer Research Program offers UCLA undergraduates the opportunity to carry out research with a faculty mentor during the summer.
UCLA chemist Professor Alexander Spokoyny is among 24 early-career scientists nationwide to be named a 2018 Cottrell Scholar.
Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was honored at the Hawthorne Lecture on January 31, 2018.
Professor Carla Koehler was one of five researchers to speak at the prestigious “Mitochondria and Medicine: The 2017 Dr Paul Janssen Award Symposium” last year.
Professor Jean-François Joanny (ESPCI Paris and Institut Curie Paris) gave the 4th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on January 22, 2018.
Professor Ken Houk is one of the featured speakers at a special symposium at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.
We are sad to report that emeritus Professor Roberts (Bob) Smith passed away peacefully at the age of 89 on January 25, 2018 following a brief illness.
We are sad to report that former long-time UCLA laboratory supervisor Kerstin E Stempel passed away on January 15, 2018.
Professor Shimon Weiss leads team to develop nanosensors that can be directly inserted into a cell’s lipid membrane and be used to measure membrane potential.
Photos from the 2018 Christopher S Foote Lecture events are now available for viewing.
The researchers have determined the atomic structure of a protein fragment called a prion that is associated with infectious neurodegenerative diseases.
Professor Neil Garg has been awarded Baylor University’s prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.
1st year PhD student Mackenzie Anderson (Kaner Group) awarded a 2018 American Membrane Technology Association-US Bureau of Reclamation Graduate Fellowship.
UCLA researchers have found that modification of actin leads to dramatic changes in actin filament stability.