The Physical Division of the American Chemical Society has named Professor Justin Caram as the winner of the prestigious 2024 Richard Van Duyne Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry. […]

Professor Stuart Conway, the inaugural holder of UCLA’s Michael and Alice Jung Endowed Chair of Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, is one of four UCLA researchers to receive a Translational […]

Lisa Boatner, a fifth-year graduate student in the Backus/Houk research groups, is one of two students to win the poster competition at the Drug Discovery Chemistry Conference in San Diego […]

The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) has awarded Assistant Professor Danielle Schmitt a $77,800 Strategic Plan Aligned Project Seed Grant for her project entitled “iGlo: A Novel Molecular Biosensor […]

Research led by Professor Richard Kaner and graduate student Yuto Katsuyama, published in Small, was among the journal’s top downloaded papers during its first 12 months of publication. Small is […]

Third-year chemistry graduate student Shelby Vexler (biophysics track, Chen group) won third place at the UCLA Graduate Division Grad Slam competition on April 2, 2024. Vexler’s 3-minute prize-winning talk was […]

Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) and Honorable Mentions. The National Science Foundation […]

Alumnus Dr. Amir Nasajpour (Ph.D. ’23 in chemistry from the Paul S. Weiss group) won the 2024 UCLA MedTECH Demo Track Entrepreneur competition for his startup, Entropic Biosciences, Inc., which […]