On Friday, December 7, 2012, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine presented a joint symposium honoring Dr. Harold Varmus, Director of National Cancer Institute and 1989 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
The lecture videos from the symposium can be viewed at www.seaborg.ucla.edu.
Check out our Fall 2012 issue of UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Newsletter, with up-to-date information on 2012-2013 upcoming Lecture series. Read our new department chair's message with exciting news and changes. In this issue, we also feature numerous awards received by our faculty(Prof. Xiangfeng Duan, Prof. Neil Garg, Prof. Sabeeha Merchant, Prof. Yi Tang, Prof. Bouchard, to name a few.), as well as noteworthy achievement by our students, such as Mr. Alexander Huters receiving the Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship, or Mr. Adam Goetz Receiving the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship. Download and read more about our improved summer research program.
In this issue, we feature a number of our distinguished faculty members receiving prominent awards including:
Our graduate fellows are just as active, receiving such a honors as Journal of Biological Chemistry Young Investigator's award(Congratulations to Erin Greiner.) Our congratulation also goes to Mr. Julio Darcy who have earned a second prize at the annual National Collegiate Inventor's competition sponsored in part by the UD Patent and Trademark Office.
Read our featured article on our faculty, Dr. Jorge Torres, who discovered suppressing STARD9 protein could be a novel a strategy to fight off certain kind of cancer cells. A newly found STARD9 protein helps to regulate cell division, and could potentially used to stop malignant cells from dividing. His study was published in the December 9, 2011 issue of Cell.
Our achievements and awards are numerous. Find out more by Downloading our newsletter.
Eric Scerri‘s new book, A Very Short Introduction to the Periodic Table, published by Oxford University Press, was reviewed in the UK's prestigious daily newspaper,The Guardian.
The book is part of OUP's series of Very Short Introductions which now includes about 300 titles.
2012 Chemistry and Biochemistry Newsletter