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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]