INCITE 2024 Award

3 days ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova wins supercomputer access for 2024 from the DOE Office of Science through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.  Only 75 of […]

INCITE 2024 Award
December 8

2023-2024 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science

1 month ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate students Alexandra Turmon (Backus lab) and Cindy Wang (S. Clarke and C. Clarke labs) have been selected as 2023-2024 Fowler Fellows. Each Fellow […]

2023-2024 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science
November 8

The 2023 Oesper Award

1 month ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences, is the recipient of the 2023 Oesper Award presented by the University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Chemistry and the […]

The 2023 Oesper Award
November 2

Futures 100 Innovators Award

1 month ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Chemical biology graduate student AJ Addae (Paul S. Weiss group) wins second place in the 2023 Future 100 Innovators Awards. Each month in 2023 The Future Laboratory analysts chose 10 […]

Futures 100 Innovators Award
October 30

$250,000 grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

1 month ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

Professor Danielle Schmitt and collaborator Professor Tara TeSlaa (UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology) have been awarded $250,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to investigate why diets deficient in choline and […]

$250,000 grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
October 30

Advancing non-addictive cannabis-based pain relief for oral cancer patients

2 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Research

Professor Alexander Spokoyny and Dr. James Tilden are part of a UCLA Dentistry–led team to receive a $5 million NIH HEAL initiative federal grant to develop an effective, non-addictive synthetic […]

Advancing non-addictive cannabis-based pain relief for oral cancer patients
October 25

$4.5 million DOE award establishes new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA

2 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Sarah Tolbert is the Center Director of the new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA, which aims to make sodium ion batteries a marketable commodity.  […]

$4.5 million DOE award establishes new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA
October 20

$1.5M National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award

2 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

Professor Danielle Schmitt receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.  The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, disbursed over a […]

$1.5M National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award
October 3