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 […]

PhD students Tim Boit, Jason Chari, and Rachel Knapp receive the 2020 Education Innovation Award for creating and teaching a successful online summer course.  The team created and taught the online summer course Chemistry 101 “Catalysis in Modern Drug Discovery” and will split the $3,000 prize, which is made possible by the generous donations provided […]

In the inaugural podcast of UCLA’s Bruin Family Insights, Professor Alex Spokoyny discusses the challenges of teaching and mentoring remotely during a pandemic.  Bruin Family Insights is a new podcast meant to equip families with knowledge to help them get to know UCLA better, and encourage their student to thrive during their time at UCLA […]

Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Those recognized are Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, Richard Kaner, and Jeffrey Zink.    The Clarivate 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence […]

UCLA graduate students launch crowdfunding campaign to raise $100K to endow an annual UCLA lectureship series to celebrate Black chemists and biochemists. The goal of the annual lectureship is to invite one of the world’s top Black scientists to UCLA each year to give a special lecture. The lecture series would be open to the […]