From UCLA Newsroom (by Holly Ober): David Eisenberg, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, has been selected by SPARK NS for the 2025 cohort of research support for […]

Professor Chong Liu is part of an interdisciplinary research team that has developed sensor technology utilizing nature’s biochemical processes to continuously monitor multiple metabolites in the body, providing real-time insights […]

We are excited to share the highlights of the many achievements within the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry community through our new 20-page color departmental magazine. Click here to view the magazine. We […]

2024 Nobel Laureate Professor David Baker (University of Washington), along with 20 of his coworkers, and Professor Ken Houk and his former UCLA graduate student, Dr. Cooper Jamieson (Ph.D. ’21, […]

UCLA organic chemistry laboratories led by Distinguished Professors Neil Garg and Ken Houk have reported a groundbreaking study in Nature.   The groups demonstrate that two highly strained reactants, a cyclic allene […]

Iminium-catalyzed cycloadditions are a hallmark of organocatalysis, a concept that David MacMillan famously coined as “LUMO-catalysis” when he and Benjamin List were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their […]

Distinguished Professor Michael Jung and his UCLA collaborators are featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article for their groundbreaking research on a potential cure for baldness. Jung played a pivotal […]

The Yi Tang group has discovered a new type of metal-containing enzyme from a natural fungus that can perform surprising halogenation reactions on organic molecules. The study, published in Nature, represents […]