On July 1, 2023, the baton for the leadership of the NIH-supported UCLA Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Predoctoral Research Training Program was passed on to Professor Patrick Harran from Professor Heather Maynard.
Maynard was the Director and Primary Investigator (PI) of interdisciplinary training grant from 2011 to 2023. “I am excited for Patrick to take the helm,” she said. “Patrick has been a dedicated mentor and board member of the training grant since his arrival at UCLA, including being the internship mentor, and will be fantastic director. The UCLA CBI program is in terrific hands!”
The UCLA CBI program is designed to provide research training to predoctoral students in chemical approaches to the solution of biological problems. Students selected to participate in this program are trained in the language and techniques of biological and chemical sciences and gain experience as members of multidisciplinary teams working on the frontier of research at the chemistry-biology interface.
The mission of the UCLA CBI program is to provide rigorous research training, professional development, and mentoring to a diverse group of predoctoral students in chemical approaches to the solution of biological problems.
Harran received his bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College in New York. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1995 and completed an NIH-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in 1997. That fall, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In 2005, he was promoted to Full Professor and named the Mar Nell & F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry. He joined the faculty at UCLA in July 2008 as the inaugural D.J. & J.M. Cram Chair in Organic Chemistry. He served as Vice Chair of Graduate Education for the department from 2016 to 2022.
Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penny@chem.ucla.edu.
