Professor Guillaume Chanfreau has been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri, world expert on the periodic table, discusses the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. On January 3, 2019, Scerri was interviewed on the […]

Graduate students Kevin Murray, Scott McConnell, and Rebeccah Warmack have been selected as 2018-19 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science. The awards were announced at the Molecular Biology Institute’s 2018 […]

Graduate student Guillaume Urtecho (Kosuri group) is one of three UCLA graduate students to receive a prestigious 2018 MBI Teaching Excellence Award. The inaugural MBI Roy & Dorothy John/Fred Eiserling […]

We are sad to report that alumna Catherine Leetola passed away at the age of 34 on December 28, 2018, after a courageous two-year cancer battle. Catherine was born January […]

Two giants in the science of electron cryo-microscopy were awarded the 2018 Glenn Seaborg Medal in recognition of their crucial contributions to the field. Professor Emeritus Robert Glaeser (University of […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected a fellow of the prestigious European Academy of Sciences. A UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of materials science and engineering, Kaner […]

Alumna Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17 Andrews/P Weiss Groups), an ETH Zürich postdoctoral fellow, receives the 2018 Norma Stoddart Prize.  Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart presented the award at Nakatsuka’s Stoddart Lecture […]