Professor Ken Houk has collaborated with the Professor Martin Schmeing (McGill University) group to reveal a novel mechanism for peptide biosynthesis.  In an accelerated publication in Nature, the Schmeing group’s […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been honored with the 2024 Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (QBIC) Prize for her groundbreaking research on the role of electrostatics in enzymatic catalysis. This prestigious award recognizes […]

New research by Professor Irene Chen’s group and NASA collaborators, focused on structures that could have been around during the RNA world, suggests RNA did not initially have a predisposed […]

A “Big Impact Research” video featuring research by Professor Anne Andrews and graduate student Noelle Mitchell has been airing during commercial breaks for televised UCLA football and basketball games in […]

From UCLA Newsroom (by Jonathan Riggs): Prineha Narang, UCLA professor of physical sciences and of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a nearly $2 million grant from the Gordon […]

Invizyne Technologies, a company that began in Professor Emeritus James Bowie’s lab at UCLA, has recently completed a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) and is now listed on the NASDAQ […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan and David Eisenberg have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2024 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Comprising nearly 7,000 researchers from around […]

Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez (B.A., M.S. ’09, Houk group), currently a Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University, will be joining the UCLA faculty on January 1, 2025 as a Full […]