The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Juli Feigon (UCLA) has been chosen as the 2023-24 Seaborg Medalist. The Seaborg Medal, established in 1987, […]

14 chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2023-2024 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Additionally, two students who work within chemistry and biochemistry labs from the BBSB […]

Professors Matthew Nava and Danielle Schmitt have been selected to receive a UCLA Faculty Career Development Awards. Nava and Schmitt will both receive $15,000, which will assist them as they […]

Congratulations to Professor Justin Caram on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2023. A physical chemist, Caram joined the chemistry faculty in July 2017 as an […]

First-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry to represent the ACS at the […]

Alumnus Dr. Chuanzhen Zhao (M.S. ’17 chemistry, Ph.D. ’20 materials chemistry P. Weiss and A. Andrews groups) is the recipient of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) […]

Professor Keriann Backus has been named a recipient of the 2023 Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from the Ono Pharma Foundation to support her research on chemoproteogenomic approaches to guide immunomodulatory […]

We are excited to share a special video with messages from our faculty, congratulating our recently graduated Ph.D. students! As a tradition that started in 2020, these video messages have […]