UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri discusses how philosophy and chemistry combine in new Academic Influence video.  In November 2020, Scerri was ranked 2nd in all chemical influencers in the world over the last decade (2010-2020) by AcademicInfluence.com, which is a team of academics and data scientists who are working to provide “an objective, […]

Professor Hosea Nelson receives the 2020 Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements in academia.  As part of the award, which is focused on rewarding investigators within the first 10 years of their independent career, Nelson will receive an unrestricted research grant. He is the only recipient of […]

Professor Paul Weiss’ group’s research is included in the University of California’s “10 biggest (non-COVID) science stories you might have missed in 2020”. Chemistry graduate student Jason Belling is lead author and Professor Paul Weiss and Dr. Steven Jonas, a UCLA assistant professor in pediatrics, are co-senior authors on the recognized paper published in the […]

A collaboration between UCLA, University of Washington, and Beijing Institute of Technology discovers a doped polymer system that exclusively forms bipolarons. By Dr. Matthew Voss (Schwartz group) The groups of Professor Ben Schwartz and Professor Sarah Tolbert, using a polymer synthesized by Professor Sam Jenekhe’s Group at the University of Washington and some computational help […]

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 […]