Professor Sabeeha Merchant and researcher Sean Gallaher are part of the team whose research could lead to advances in biofuels and medicine. Plant biologists and biochemists from UCLA, UC Berkeley […]

The Saturday afternoon event on May 13th was organized by the  UCLA Graduate Biochemistry Student Association .  The students organized the event to promote camaraderie among all the UCLA Biochemistry, […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny was presented with the 2017 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) Glenn Seaborg Award at the annual AXΣ Seaborg Banquet on May 6th.           […]

An interview with third-year biochemistry undergraduate student Rico Lomarda about his music was recently featured in the student-run daily newspaper. In addition to his studies, Lomarda finds time to write […]

Alumnus Sep Sarshar ’89 has been selected for the 2017 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award.  Dr. Sarshar will accept the award and present his commencement address at the UCLA […]

At the end of April, the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) held its Annual Retreat in Ventura.  The new beach location proved to be popular with the 92 students and 20 […]

Research by Professor Xiangfeng Duan and members of his group was published in the journal Science this week. Titled “Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh-rate energy storage,” the paper was […]

Professor Patrick Harran was awarded the 31st Yoshida Lectureship from the International Organic Chemistry Foundation (IOCF) in Japan.  In recognition of his “outstanding contributions to organic chemistry”, Harran presented two […]