A team of 23 researchers from the Tang, Houk and Garg labs receive the RSC’s 2021 Horizon Prize: Bioorganic Chemistry Award for their discovery of a new class of enzymes.  […]

Professors Johnny Pang and Anish Nag have been named the recipients of the 2021 Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching.   The Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching was established in […]

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), […]

Professor Ellen Sletten has been chosen for the prestigious 2020-2021 McCoy Award, which recognizes the researcher in the department who has made the greatest contribution of the year to the […]

Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Cheng-Wei Lin are part of the UCLA team to win the grand prize in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE global competition.  By mitigating the carbon […]

Cheylene Tanimoto (Gelbart/Knobler group) is one of only five UCLA graduate students selected campus-wide for the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Tanimoto was selected for the Distinguished Teaching […]

Ishika Saha (Harran group) is one of eight 4th year PhD students chosen from labs around the country to participate in the 2021 Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research. […]

Professor Stuart Schreiber, Harvard University & Co-Founder, Broad Institute, gave the virtual Spring 2021 Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.  Faculty, students, and researchers attended Schreiber’s lecture titled “30 […]