Tang, Nelson collaboration featured in Nature Chemical Biology
3 years ago
The team demonstrates the synergy of MicroED and synthetic biology in natural product discovery, technologies that together will ultimately accelerate the speed of new drug discovery. In the paper, they […]
2021 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Organic Division Horizon Prize: Bioorganic Chemistry Award
3 years ago
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. […]
Tang-Garg-Houk groups discover first enzymes to catalyze a classic organic reaction
4 years ago
The Tang, Garg, and Houk research groups have discovered nature’s natural protein catalysts (enzymes) that catalyze the Alder-ene reaction. All groups are part of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & […]
Tang group collaboration featured in Nature
6 years ago
Professor Yi Tang is co-leader of the UCLA team of engineers and scientists to discover a new and potentially highly effective type of weed killer. The study titled “Resistance-gene-directed discovery of […]
Discovery unlocks secrets of how nature synthesizes important chemicals
7 years ago
The groups of Professors Yi Tang and Ken Houk and Japanese scientists have discovered a new mode of enzyme catalysis recently reported in the journal Nature. Tang and Houk, in […]
Yi Tang receives prestigious international award
8 years ago
Professor Yi Tang has been selected as the recipient of the Mr and Mrs Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry. Established in 1998 by Sunney Chan, then director of […]