Professor Todd Yeates and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Roger Castells-Graells lead team of biochemists to devise a solution that makes it possible to hold small protein molecules in place while they’re […]

An in-depth article about the department’s Teacher-Scholar program was recently featured in UCLA’s student-run paper, the Daily Bruin. From the Daily Bruin by Kai Nikchevich: UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry […]

Yessica Nelson, a fourth-year inorganic chemistry graduate student from the Spokoyny group, was awarded the first prize in the technical presentation competition for advanced Ph.D. students at the 47th Annual […]

UCLA has been named the nation’s top public university in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings. The campus has now held the No. 1 spot for […]

Materials chemistry graduate student Amir Nasajpour (P. Weiss group) has been selected as one of the finalists to compete in the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Washington, D.C. next month. […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova and former and current members of her group are part of a UCLA team of researchers using advanced computer tools to examine how molecules interact in the […]

Framed Nobel Prize posters are now on display to honor the remarkable achievements of distinguished chemists and biochemists closely affiliated with UCLA and our department. The majority of these posters […]

Several UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members have most cited publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) for 2020-2021. A highly cited JACS publication has garnered a […]