In a new video, UCLA physical virologist Professor William Gelbart discusses the therapeutic and preventative COVID-19 vaccine that his group is developing.  A Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Gelbart was one of three faculty members sharing overviews on a variety of research projects pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic at the May 29th UCLA Division […]

Inspired by the pandemic, UC Merced professor Michael Thompson (PhD ’14 BMSB Yeates) uses X-ray crystallography to visualize therapeutic molecules for antiviral therapies. Thompson received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UCLA in 2014 under the direction of Professor Todd Yeates. He was a postdoc at the University of California, San Franisco, working with […]

Graduate student Chuanzhen Zhao (P Weiss/A Andrews groups) wins Materials Research Society (MRS) Gold Graduate Student Award.  The MRS Graduate Student Award, which includes $400 and a presentation plaque, is the highest award given to graduate students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research. Zhao was selected as one […]

Postdoc alum Carole Linster and her team at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) win FNR 2020 Award for Outstanding Scientific Publication. Linster leads the Enzymology and Metabolism group as an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at the LCSB at the University of Luxembourg. She and her group members Nicole Paczia, Julia Becker-Kettern, Jean-François […]

Professor Ellen Sletten and collaborators are one of 13 research teams chosen for a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Deep Tissue Imaging grant.   Sletten, Dr. Oliver Bruns at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus in Munich, Germany, and Dr. Christopher Rowlands at Imperial College London, will receive $1 million for their project “Deep tissue short-wave infrared multiphoton microscopy.” Through […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named an IEEE Fellow in recognition of his contributions to nanoscience and specifically electronic transport in molecular systems.  The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total […]

We are pleased to welcome to the department our two new Teacher-Scholar Instructional faculty members.  Dr. Kristopher Barr (M.S. ’15, Ph.D. ’20) and Dr. Daniel Nasrallah have joined our Teacher-Scholar Instructional faculty. They were chosen from a competitive pool of many applicants. Our Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral scholars to experience research and teaching at the […]

BMSB PhD student Nicole Lynn (Torres lab) writes third article for ASBMB Today magazine as part of their contributor program.   Lynn’s article titled “World Pneumonia Day 2020” was featured in the November 12, 2020 issue of ASBMB Today, the member magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The article celebrates World Pneumonia […]