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Latest News
May 19, 2022
Professor Richard Kaner leads team of researchers to develop novel surface treatment that stops microbes from adhering to medical devices like catheters and stents.
May 13, 2022
Professor Justin Caram is among 18 honorees nationwide to receive a 2022 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
May 12, 2022
We are sad to report that synthetic chemist Professor David Evans, co-creator of ChemDraw, former UCLA faculty member, and 2006 Seaborg Medalist, passed away at the age of 81 on April 29.
May 4, 2022
UCLA team, led by Professor Irene Chen, develops nanoparticle-phage therapy, a promising alternative treatment for antibiotic-resistant infections.
May 3, 2022
A team led by Professor Shimon Weiss and former PhD student Arkaprabha Basu has developed an image processing technique, SPOCC, which quantifies cytoskeletal properties using microscopic images.
Apr 28, 2022
PhD student Samantha Theresa Mensah (Andrews/P Weiss groups) has been awarded a Boren Fellowship to conduct research and study Twi in Ghana.
Apr 26, 2022
MIT News features profile of former Spokoyny lab undergraduate researcher Azin Saebi (MS/BS biochemistry and BS neuroscience, ‘17).
Apr 20, 2022
Professor David Eisenberg leads UCLA research team to report in the journal Nature that amyloid fibrils found in people with frontotemporal degeneration contain the little-known protein TMEM106B.
Apr 18, 2022
The department welcomes renowned theoretical and computational science scholar Professor Prineha Narang, who joins the UCLA faculty as the Howard Reiss Development Chair.
Apr 18, 2022
Professors Paul S Weiss and Louis Bouchard are co-investigators on a multi-institutional quantum biology team to receive a three-year $1M award from the prestigious WM Keck Foundation.
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We are pleased to announce UCLA’s new Master of Applied Chemical Sciences (MACS) Program, enrolling students in Fall 2022. MACS was created in response to the high demand for chemists from world-wide industrial partners.
The program balances a strong academic grounding,...
The department is seeking outstanding candidates for tenure-track or tenured faculty positions at the level of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor.
The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is conducting three faculty searches in the fields of...
The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is seeking outstanding candidates for the Paul D. Boyer/Donald J. Cram/Willard F. Libby Teacher-Scholar program. This program provides both teaching and research opportunities for recent PhD graduates (PhD earned 2018-2022).
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