Team led by Professor Paul Weiss’ group develops a new method to safely, rapidly and economically deliver DNA into stem cells and immune cells.  The new tool will help scientists provide new gene therapies to patients with a wide variety of cancers, genetic disorders and blood diseases. Chemistry graduate student Jason Belling was lead author […]

Chemistry professor Robin Garrell, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division, to serve as new President of the CUNY Graduate Center.  Garrell will be leaving UCLA as of July 31, 2020, to become president of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. She has served UCLA as vice provost […]

April 24 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kenneth Trueblood, who for nearly 50 years was a distinguished member of our department.  Born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Ken earned an A.B. from Harvard in 1941 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1947, both in chemistry. His Ph.D. research, […]

First-year organic chemistry graduate student Maximilian McCallum amuses Chem 243B professor and fellow classmates with his clever Zoom background images. McCallum, currently rotating in Professor Patrick Harran’s group, is taking Professor Heather Maynard’s upper level 243B Organic Chemistry: Mechanism and Structure class this quarter. Due to the Covid19 pandemic, all chemistry and biochemistry courses have […]

BMSB graduate student David Boyer (Eisenberg group) has been chosen as a recipient of a Charles E and Sue K Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award.  Since 1981, only four exceptional UCLA graduate students per year are chosen by the College Deans to receive this prestigious award which recognizes “outstanding graduate students for exemplary academic achievement, […]

Dean of Physical Sciences Miguel García-Garibay has been elected  to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. A member of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty for more than two […]

Kaner group undergraduate research assistant Grant Hushek wins American Society for Metals (ASM) International Los Angeles Chapter scholarship.  Grant is a UCLA Materials Science and Engineering student conducting research in Professor Richard Kaner’s laboratory in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.  He worked on developing silica nanospheres with the goal of creating novel forms of […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry alumnus and Reed College Professor Emeritus Thomas Dunne ’52 died on April 5, 2020, at the age of 89. Dunne received a B.S. in chemistry from UCLA in 1952 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Washington in 1957. He then worked as a chemist at Central Research labs […]