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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Professor William Gelbart’s research and its influence on the field of physical virology is featured in the New York Times Science Section.  The article titled “If You Squeeze the Coronavirus, […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, postdocs, grad students, and undergrads helped make Exploring Your Universe (EYU) on November 1, 2020, a huge success. Exploring Your Universe (EYU) is one of UCLA’s […]

Research team of Professor Chong Liu and UCLA postdoc alum Professor Nanette Boyle (CO School of Mines) receives $55K 2020 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award. Liu and Boyle received the award […]

Professor Neil Garg’s laboratory has been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of […]