The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is excited to announce that five talented researchers and educators will be joining the department in the coming months. Please join us in […]

Professor Joan Valentine is part of a team of researchers from UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology, who argue that iron was life’s earliest, and […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan and co-first author, alumna Dr. Bosi Peng (Ph.D. ’22), are part of a UCLA-led team that has developed an ultrafine platinum nanocatalyst embedded with cobalt oxide clusters, […]

Professor Abigail Doyle, the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, has been named to the Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire list for her contributions in organic chemistry and computational […]

An article about the late Professor Daniel Atkinson, featuring quotes from his family, former lab members, and colleagues, was featured in the August 30, 2024, issue of UCLA’s student-run publication, […]

Professor Paul S. Weiss has been named the recipient of the 2024 Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. Since 1950, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement has been awarded […]

Professor Prineha Narang is part of a team of UCLA researchers that has received a one-year, $1 million grant as part of a new National Science Foundation program aimed at […]

Professor Keriann Backus has won the annual International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist Award. Backus will deliver her award lecture, titled “Defining the functional cysteinome with multidimensional chemoproteomics,” […]