Chemists use oxygen and copper “scissors” to cut carbon bonds and create new, valuable molecules at lower cost
2 days ago
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Professor Ohyun Kwon and her research group have developed a groundbreaking method which utilizes oxygen and copper to efficiently break carbon-carbon bonds in hydrocarbons and convert them into valuable amine […]

Experimental brain-like computing system more accurate with custom algorithm
2 weeks ago
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A team of researchers, led by Professor James Gimzewski and alumnus Dr. Adam Stieg (Ph.D. ’07 Gimzewski), has created an experimental computing system physically modeled after the biological brain, which […]

UCLA researchers develop solid-state thermal transistor for better heat management
4 weeks ago
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Professor Paul S. Weiss and current and former members of his group are part of a UCLA research team that has developed a first-of-its-kind thermal transistor capable of rapidly and […]

$250,000 grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
1 month ago
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Professor Danielle Schmitt and collaborator Professor Tara TeSlaa (UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology) have been awarded $250,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to investigate why diets deficient in choline and […]

Advancing non-addictive cannabis-based pain relief for oral cancer patients
1 month ago
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Professor Alexander Spokoyny and Dr. James Tilden are part of a UCLA Dentistry–led team to receive a $5 million NIH HEAL initiative federal grant to develop an effective, non-addictive synthetic […]

Faculty in the News
1 month ago
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Adjunct professor of chemistry, longtime fire fighter, and UCLA alumnus Derek Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’22 Chemistry, Alexandrova group) is featured in UC Newsroom article about UC-backed […]

$1.5M National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award
2 months ago
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Professor Danielle Schmitt receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, disbursed over a […]

UCLA-led team develops key improvement to Nobel Prize-winning technology
2 months ago
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Professor Todd Yeates and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Roger Castells-Graells led a team of biochemists in devising a solution that allows for the immobilization of small protein molecules during imaging, thereby […]
