We are pleased to honor eminent UCLA biochemist Emeritus Professor Daniel Atkinson who turned 100 on April 8, 2021. Dan was born in Pawnee City, Nebraska and did his undergraduate work at the University of Nebraska, followed a Ph.D. at Iowa State University. He was a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology and a […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students Francisco Galang and Kylie Williams have been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.  The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by the University of California system. Each year this honor is awarded to up to nine […]

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 Award by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching from a large field of extraordinary nominees.  Her award will be recognized in a ceremony organized by […]

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. The virtual two-day event, scheduled for May 10-11, 2021, recognizes promising young scientists while highlighting career opportunities in pharmaceutical research and development. This year’s 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 years of Molecular Glues: Controlling Cell Circuitry in Biology and Medicine” via Zoom.  At the lecture, Department Chair Professor Neil Garg gave the welcoming remarks […]

Former undergraduate researcher alumna Abby Thurm ’20 Biochemistry (Gelbart/Knobler group) is featured on URC-Sciences’ Student Spotlight.  Thurm is profiled on UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences’ “Student Spotlights” website. In 2020, she received Undergraduate Science Journal‘s Best Life Science Research Article in 2020 for her article titled “Defective-Interfering RNAs as Antiviral Therapy Against Yellow Fever […]

Postdoc Borna Zandkarimi (Alexandrova group), PhD student David Boyer (Eisenberg group), and alum Marco Messina (PhD ’19 Maynard and Spokoyny groups) have been selected to participate in the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in June 2021. The Lindau Nobel Laureate fellows were chosen in a multi-step process that required an essay, letters of recommendation, an […]

PhD student Kierstyn Anderson (Spokoyny lab) has been selected for the AFRL 2021 Space Scholars Program to work on the design, fabrication, characterization, and development of functional coatings and materials.  Kierstyn is a 4th year graduate student in Professor Alex Spokoyny’s lab working on the development and characterization of luminescent boron-containing compounds. This summer, she […]