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 […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Chemist Richard Kaner elected a 2020 Fellow of the American […]

We are sad to report that UCLA postdoc alum and former faculty member Professor François Diederich (ETH Zürich) passed away on September 23.  A well-known organic chemist, with research interests including […]