Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, Kendall Houk, Yu Huang, and Richard Kaner have been named to the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2025 list, a recognition of their significant and broad influence in their field.  Since 2002, the international data and analytics company has released an annual list of researchers who have demonstrated compelling and broad influence in their fields of […]

On October 24, 2025, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry students and faculty gathered in the Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory in Young Hall for a student-faculty mixer. This year, UCLA’s Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) hosted the event in collaboration with Alpha Chi Sigma (AXS), the professional co-ed chemistry fraternity at UCLA. Select […]

On October 9, 2025, pioneering structural biologist Distinguished Professor Juli Feigon delivered the Mendel Lecture at the refectory in the Mendel Museum Brno. The lecture took place at the Augustinian Abbey where Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, lived and worked in Brno, Czech Republic.  Feigon’s host was Professor Richard Štefl of Masaryk University (pictured […]

UCLA researchers led by Professor Soumitra Athavale have taught enzymes an entirely new reaction mechanism—a radical hydrogenation process that nature itself never discovered. Hydrogenation — the process of adding hydrogen atoms to carbon–carbon double bonds — is one of the cornerstones of modern chemistry, enabling the synthesis of everything from medicines and fragrances to fuels […]

Victoria Barber receives American Lung Association Indoor Air Award Grant Professor Victoria “Tori” Barber has been awarded an Indoor Air Research Award Grant from the American Lung Association. Barber received the grant for her research project titled “Evaluating Health Effects of Re-emitted Smoke Volatile Organic Compounds,” which provides $100,000 per year for three years. During […]

In a recent collaborative study published in PNAS, Distinguished Research Professor Raphael Levine helped uncover how sunlight photodissociates  nitrogen molecules, offering new insights into the evolution of planetary atmospheres. Working with experimentalists led by Professor Mark Thiemens at the University of California, San Diego, Levine and coworkers developed the theoretical framework that explains how nitrogen’s […]

Professor Elizabeth Villa (University of California, San Diego), known for her pioneering research in cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), visited UCLA on October 20 to give the Fall 2025 Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture. Enthusiastic students, postdoctoral researchers, staff and faculty members attended the lecture in the Dongwon Yoo Seminar & Conference Hall in the Mani […]

The UCLA Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted its annual Trivia Night and Costume Contest on October 24, 2025, bringing together graduate students from across the biosciences for an evening of friendly competition, creative costumes, and community building, as the first event of the academic year. gBSA is a student-run organization that organizes social, outreach, […]