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 […]

Undergraduate researchers David Dumas (Liu lab) and Jaybree Lopez (Loo Lab) explain their research and offer advice to new students in URC-Sciences Research Elevator Pitch videos.  David and Jaybree created the pitches as part of their participation in the 2020 Undergraduate Research Center-Sciences’ (URC-Sciences) Center for Academic & Research Excellence (CARE) Science, Engineering and Math […]

In a new MBI video, Professors David Eisenberg and Jose Rodriguez discuss the promising new therapies they each are developing in their labs. Thanks to collaborations among research teams at the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI), promising new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are being developed at UCLA. Guided after its foundation in 1965 by […]

Professor Ken Houk is co-leader of research team that discovered selective photochemically-induced Diels-Alder reactions of nitrogen-containing molecules to give bicyclic products with high selectivity. Houk holds the Saul Winstein Distinguished Research Chair in Organic Chemistry at UCLA. Former Houk group member and Departmental Teacher-Scholar Dr. Shuming Chen (pictured right), now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and […]