Professor Michael Jung has been selected to receive the 13th AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research. The prestigious award is presented to researchers for outstanding, novel, […]

Professor Michael Jung received the LA BioStar Award from the California State University, Los Angeles for his significant contributions to biomedicine. The award was presented to Jung at the February 13, 2019, […]

Professor Michael Jung was the co-awardee of the Amgen Early Innovator Award at the UCLA Biomedical & Life Science Innovation Day 2018. The award was presented to Jung, a distinguished […]

Postdoctoral scholar Dayan Elshan (Jung group) won first place in the cancer category for his poster at the UCLA Biomedical and Life Science Innovation Day 2018. Elshan received a $750 […]

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) funding enables Professor Michael Jung’s group to successfully adopt the use of waterless condensers in their organic synthesis work. A grant from the TGIF UCLA […]

On March 16, 2018, students from Professor Craig Merlic’s Honors Seminar for Chemistry 89 held a poster session focused on new medicines. At the event held in the Young Hall […]

UCLA chemistry professor Michael Jung helped develop Erleada, which was recently approved by the FDA for treating an especially lethal form of prostate cancer. Jung’s drug research was recently featured […]

Professors Michael Jung and Heather Maynard will be recognized at the 32nd annual Johnson Symposium at Stanford University on October 13, 2017.               Since […]