JoAnne Stubbe’s 2020 Priestly Medal address “The road less traveled—for love of detection, discovery, and all things radical in nature” is now online. Read Stubbe’s address on the Chemical & Engineering News website here.  The Novartis Professor of Chemistry and Biology, emerita, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stubbe, was awarded the medal in […]

Professor Ken Houk’s group joins with the Scott Denmark group at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to explain the autocatalytic Soai reaction. The Soai reaction shown below was discovered in the 1990s and has been studied by many groups since then. It is the paradigm of an asymmetric autocatalytic reaction; a tiny amount of chiral catalyst […]

On March 1, 2020, we celebrated the official installation of Professor Michael Jung as the UC Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry. An intimate gathering of close supporters, donors, faculty, alumni, and friends gathered for a reception and dinner at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and Dean of Physical Sciences […]

We are sad to report that Lyda Boyer, widow of Nobel Laureate Emeritus Professor Paul Boyer, passed away on Monday March 9, just short of her 101st birthday. When UCLA biochemistry professor and Nobel Laureate Dr. Paul D. Boyer died in June 2018, the Boyers had been married nearly 79 years. Lyda will be cremated and […]

Professor James Bowie receives the 2020 Stein and Moore Award in recognition of his protein science research and service to the scientific community. The award is given annually by the Protein Society Society “to recognize eminent leaders in protein science who have made sustained high-impact research contributions to the field.” In announcing the award, which […]

PhD student David Boyer (Eisenberg group) is one of 20 young scientists chosen for inaugural class of the UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows. Boyer is a fifth-year Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate student in Professor David Eisenberg’s group.   From the UC Office of the President Newsroom: UC announces first class of […]

Undergraduate student Rachana Jayaraman is the winner of the 2018-19 Chem14A/B Excellence in Chemistry Book Award. A Computational and Systems Biology major, Rachana was presented the award by Dr. Laurence Lavelle at the beginning of his Chem 14A class on March 4, 2020. The Chem 14A/B Excellence in Chemistry Book Award was created in 2004 […]

A two and a half-day conference in honor of Professor Kendall N. Houk will take place August 12-14, 2020, at UCLA’s CNSI Auditorium.   Houk’s former graduate students and postdoctoral scholars have organized the Houk Research Conference (HRC) to honor the career, tradition, and experience of computational chemistry research at UCLA with Professor Houk. The conference […]