Dr. Jeffrey Stafford ‘84, CEO of 858 Therapeutics and a veteran biotechnology executive and scientist, has been named the recipient of the 2026 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award. Stafford […]

Professor Melissa Ramirez (Ph.D. ’21 organic chemistry, Garg and Houk groups), an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is profiled in a recent UCLA Newsroom […]

Department Chair Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been selected as a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of his distinguished contributions in main […]

On Tuesday, February 17, 2026, members of the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry community gathered at UCLA Carnesale Commons to celebrate the installation of 13 endowed chairs in the department. Donors, […]

Fifth-year chemistry graduate student Aleksandras “Alek” Lotuzas (Harran group) was one of 10 finalists in the 2026 UCLA Grad Slam competition, held March 11. Lotuzas’ three-minute presentation, “Harnessing Green Tea […]

A research team co-led by Professor Abigail Doyle, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Simone Gallarati, and graduate student Erin Bucci, together with Professor Matthew S. Sigman at the University of Utah, has […]

Distinguished Research Professor Ken Houk was the featured guest for Pomona College’s 62nd Robbins Lecture Series, “Computational Organic and Biological Chemistry,” where he delivered four talks from February 24-27. “I had a wonderful […]

Michael Jung, Distinguished Professor and UCLA’s Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, has been selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Medicinal Chemistry (MEDI) to […]