A highly-collaborative study at UCLA by García-Garibay, Houk and Brown (Physics) groups show promising applications of dipolar rotors in the solid state.               The team’s research is a key step to the development of emergent dipolar arrays and other types of crystalline molecular machines. Their paper titled “Dipolar Order in an […]

Professor Jorge Torres has been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The $1.95M NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigator Research Award (MIRA) will be used to support Torres’ research focused on investigating the human cell division machinery. His lab will take multidisciplinary approaches to advance current knowledge on the repertoire […]

Professors Anne Andrews and Heather Maynard have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. The inductees were nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for outstanding contributions to particular research areas – Andrews for developing and applying the tools to eavesdrop […]

Professor Justin Caram is named as one of 25 Cottrell Scholars for the quality and innovation of his research program and his academic leadership skills.  Caram will receive a $100,000 award for his project “Chemical Physics Informed Design of SWIR Emissive Molecules”.  “In these challenging times, more than ever, science needs young faculty with fresh […]

Professor Anne Andrews has received the 2021 IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering award.  As UCLA professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and a Senior Research Scientist in the Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology, Andrews leads efforts in basic and translational research on anxiety and depression, and at the nexus of neuroscience […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students help continue CNSI’s education and outreach mission during the pandemic by developing at-home experimental protocols and delivering content to students virtually. From UCLA Newsroom (by Wayne Lewis): Bringing hands-on STEM learning home for the pandemic California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has adapted its outreach programs during COVID-19 Among the UCLA […]

Ken Houk, postdoc Yike Zou, and collaborators design and improve, by directed evolution, most potent protein catalyst yet known for a Diels-Alder reaction.  The team’s paper titled “Efficient Lewis Acid Catalysis of an Abiological Reaction in a de novo Protein Scaffold” was published in the February issue of Nature Chemistry. Professor Ken Houk holds the […]

Professor Heather Maynard named an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and starts the position on February 1, 2021.   The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), founded in 1879, is the flagship journal of the American Chemical Society and the world’s preeminent journal in all of chemistry and interfacing areas […]