The David and Lucile Packard Foundation selects Professor Keriann Backus as one of 20 recipients of the 2020 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.   In being selected as one of the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists and engineers, each Fellow will receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. Packard fellowships enable the nation’s […]

Technology created by Professor Sri Kosuri’s UCLA-founded startup company Octant leads to the development of a faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing technique. Kosuri, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is co-founder and CEO of Octant, which created the technology on which the testing technique, called SwabSeq, is based. He was recently interviewed on Fox Business […]

Professor Hosea Nelson has been named as a recipient of the prestigious 2020 Eli Lilly Grantee Award for Organic Chemistry.  The Eli Lilly Grantee program was established in 1965 to support emerging young leaders in organic chemistry and is the longest running grant program in the pharmaceutical industry. The award comes with a two-year, $100,000 […]

Professor Juli Feigon discusses her telomerase research with science journalist Robyn Williams on “The Science Show”.  The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s award winning “The Science Show” is considered by many to be the world’s best science broadcast program.  In the seven-minute interview, which is part of a program titled “Three Exceptional Women”, Feigon discusses her important […]

Pierce College professor Benny Ng (BS ’03, MS ’09, PhD ’10 Tolbert group) features rapper Snoop Dogg in viral video encouraging students to read class syllabus. The video has racked up over 10 million views and was featured on the celebrity gossip website TMZ. Dr. Benny Ng is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Los Angeles […]

Graduate student Mackenzie Anderson ‘17 (Kaner group) is selected for prestigious 2020 NWRI-SCSC Fellowship. Anderson was selected for the Fellowship to support her graduate research project “Toward Deterministic Membrane Design Using Thin-Film Liftoff.”  The Fellowship carries with it an award of $10,000.  Anderson is conducting research in Professor Richard Kaner‘s laboratory where she is studying novel chemically […]

The Tang, Garg, and Houk research groups have discovered nature’s natural protein catalysts (enzymes) that catalyze the Alder-ene reaction. All groups are part of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Professor Yi Tang is the Chancellor Professor at the UCLA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and also holds a joint appointment in the Department […]

BMSB graduate students Janine Fu, Calina Glynn, and Jiahui Lu have been selected as 2020-21 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science. Each Fellow will present a talk at the Audree V. Fowler Fellowships in Protein Science Special Seminar on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 p.m. Click here for Zoom details. In 2008, an […]