On August 14, 2019, members of the department gathered to celebrate the recent promotion and tenure of Professor Sriram “Sri” Kosuri. Faculty, staff, and graduate students gathered in Cafe Commons to congratulate Kosuri on his promotion. Before leading the group in a toast, Department Chair Professor Neil Garg commended Kosuri on his research excellence, exceptional […]

This year we welcome two new Teacher-Scholars and bid farewell to four former Teacher-Scholars.  In July 2019, Dr. Marlius Castillo (Cram Teacher-Scholar) and Dr. Anish Nag (M.S. ’15, Ph.D. ’19) (Boyer Teacher-Scholar) joined our Teacher-Scholar Instructional faculty. They were chosen from a competitive pool of many applicants. Our Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral scholars to experience […]

Alumnus Dr Dimitri Bikos (PhD ’18) and Professor Thomas Mason have created a new technique that uses gel electrophoresis to collide bands of reacting species. Their paper, entitled “Band-collision Gel Electrophoresis”, was published online in the prestigious journal Nature Communications on August 12, 2019. Bikos is the first-author and Mason is the senior and corresponding […]

UCLA’s Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Structural Biology program PhD outcome data featured in A SBMB Today. BMSB graduate program Ph.D. outcome statistics were featured in the article titled “Ph.D. Outcomes – one university at a time” which was published in the August 2019 issue of ASBMB Today, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s (ASBMB) monthly magazine. In order to […]

PhD student Kelly Wong helped create an innovative organic chemistry board game called REACT!, which helps students have fun while learning organic chemistry.  As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, Wong and her peers saw how overwhelmed students were in their organic chemistry courses. “Organic chemistry is often viewed as a barrier that […]

On August 1, 2019, the department held a reception for undergraduate and high school students who conduct research in chemistry & biochemistry faculty labs.  The student researchers gathered with their faculty mentors, graduate student and postdoc mentors, and other faculty and students at the reception in the Boyer Hall. Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education Professor […]

UCLA chemical engineers and their French and Belgian colleagues discover heterogeneous catalysts for a more sustainable and selective production of amines.  The study was published in Nature Catalysis and was led by Professor Philippe Sautet, who holds faculty appointments in both the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and in the UCLA Samueli School of […]

Professors Ellen Sletten and Jeffrey Zink and their group members join with researchers in Germany to develop new optical imaging agents. Their paper titled “Shortwave Infrared Imaging with J-Aggregates Stabilized in Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles” was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).  Graduate students Wei Chen, Emily Cosco, and Chi-An Cheng, Professors […]