Professor Neil Garg and postdoc alumnus Dr. Eva Darzi, now CEO of ElecraTect, Inc., are heading a team of researchers who are testing a “cannabinoid fuel cell” that provides a […]

Inspired by a microscopic animal’s ability to survive and aided by UCLA’s Innovation Fund, Professor Heather Maynard is leading a team of researchers to invent a polymer with the potential […]

Professor Richard Kaner’s new bacterial resistant coating for medical devices is featured in UCLA’s student-run newspaper, the Daily Bruin. Kaner group alumni Brian McVerry (Ph.D. ’16) and Ethan Rao (B.S. […]

A two-day conference in honor of Professor Kendall Houk will take place August 11-12, 2022, at UCLA’s Chemistry & Biochemistry Department. Professor Kendall N. Houk’s former graduate students and postdoctoral […]

Thanks to our generous donors, 21 undergraduate students will conduct research in our faculty labs this year as summer research fellows. The summer research experience can be one of the […]

73 of our undergraduate student researchers presented their research at the UCLA Undergraduate Research Showcase, nine were awarded the prestigious Science Dean’s Prize.  At the event on May 25, 2021, […]

Eight talented chemistry & biochemistry graduate students have been awarded 2021 Excellence in Research awards. Congratulations to Zach Hern (Diaconescu group), Evan Hurlow (Harran group), Yao Gong (P Weiss group), […]

Congratulations to our current and former students who have received prestigious 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards and Honorable Mentions. 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) were awarded to […]