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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]