Professors Heather Maynard, Irene Chen, Abigail Doyle, José Rodriguez, and Yi Tang, along with members of their research groups, are part of a team that has successfully synthesized analogs of […]

On June 9, 2025, we celebrated the many accomplishments of our alumni, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff at our annual departmental awards ceremony. Each year at this event, we […]

Professor Michael Jung, UCLA’s Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, has been selected as one of three alumni from Rice University’s Weiss School of Natural Sciences to […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is co-leader of a research team that has developed a method for creating cement precursors from carbon dioxide.  Alexandrova holds the Charles W. Clifford Jr. Chair in […]

In advance of delivering the Academic Senate’s 130th Faculty Research Lecture on June 6, 2025, Professor Michael Jung, the Walter and Shirley Wang Professor of Medicinal Drug Discovery, is featured […]

Professors Matthew Nava and Danielle Schmitt receive 2025 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Awards. These awards honor the considerable dedication of faculty mentors who have served as effective research mentors to […]

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard E. “Dick” Dickerson, a giant in structural biology, passed away peacefully on May 14, 2025, at the age of 93. He was surrounded by his family […]

The department welcomes talented microbial chemist, Dr. Antonio Tinoco Valencia, who will join the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2025. At UCLA, the Tinoco group will […]