In celebration of UCLA’s centennial, research and ideas from UCLA faculty and collaborators are featured in the special June 25 issue of ACS Nano. UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty Professors Anne Andrews, Sarah Tolbert, Jeffrey Zink, and Paul Weiss were among the co-authors of the editorial titled “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at UCLA”. Weiss is the […]

Professor Michael Jung, UC Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry, is featured in Innovate, the UC Investments’ annual report.  Jung is the researcher at the forefront of the largest-ever technology transfer deal involving a University of California invention. UCLA sold the royalty rights to Jung’s compound, Xtandi, which is a drug for the treatment of prostate […]

Professor Neil Garg has been selected as the 2019 ACS James Flack Norris Teaching Award winner in recognition of his extraordinary teaching excellence. Garg will give a formal address at a ceremony on the evening of November 20, 2019, at Northeastern University, as part of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) annual […]

On June 12, 2019, faculty, staff, and students gathered for a celebration to honor Chemistry & Biochemistry department Chair Professor Catherine Clarke.  Clarke made history when she became the first female Chair of the department on July 1, 2016. Her three-year term ends on June 30, 2019. Professor Neil Garg will serve as the next Chair […]

On May 28, 2019, we celebrated the inaugural Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry appointed to Professor Neil Garg. An intimate gathering of close supporters, donors, faculty, students, alumni, staff, and immediate Garg family members gathered for a reception and dinner at the UCLA Faculty Center.  An organic chemist, Professor Neil Garg is known […]

At this year’s Academic Senate Celebrating Diversity award ceremony, two faculty members and one graduate student received prestigious DEI awards. At the event held on June 6, 2019 at the Chancellor’s residence, Professors Sarah Tolbert and Jorge Torres, and graduate student Jesus Iñiguez (Chong Liu group), received UCLA Academic Senate’s 2019 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion […]

Students from Professor Craig Merlic’s Chemistry 89 Honors Seminar held a poster session focused on medicines recently approved for a variety of diseases. On June 7, 2019, in the UCLA Court of Sciences, 31 undergraduate students from the Chemistry and Biochemistry Honors Seminar class presented 15 posters on drugs recently approved by the Food and […]