We are sad to report that Geraldine Gregory, widow of alum George Gregory (BA ’42), and longtime supporter of the department, passed away on March 7, 2019. Geraldine was the widow of alumnus George Gregory (B.A. ’42) a major benefactor of the department. George’s connection to UCLA began in 1941 when, on the basis of […]

Biochemistry graduate student Xiaofei “Fay” Lin (Hoffmann group) wins Audience Choice Award at the 5th Annual Grad Slam Final Competition. Lin gave her prize-winning three-minute talk titled “Decrypting the Immune System Code” at the final competition on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, at the California NanoSystems Institute auditorium. The graduate students who participated in the competition […]

On March 11, 2019, Professor Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge) gave the 5th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture. The well-attended lecture, titled “Counting the Uncountable:Entropy Beyond Boltzmann”, was followed by a question-and-answer period and then by a reception in the Young Hall Cafe Commons. Select photos from the event are below. The Carolyn and […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in recognition of his ground-breaking nanoscience research. Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair and is a distinguished professor of chemistry & biochemistry and materials science & engineering. He was selected for the honor in recognition of his “pioneering nanoscience advances, […]

A team led by Ken Houk has discovered a naturally occurring reaction in enzymes which could lead to new biological activities and pharmaceutical applications. Houk’s collaboration with two former group members and researchers at Nanjing University led to the documentation of the first enzymes proven to catalyze [6+4] cycloadditions. The ability of nature to make […]

Their photo is featured in the March 7, 2018 UCLA Newsroom article about the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science’s inaugural fellows. Professor Justin Caram is an assistant professor of chemistry & biochemistry and a mentor for the program and Dayanni Bhagwandin is a graduate student in Professor Yves Rubin‘s group and one of the inaugural […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 13 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on March 5, 2019. Professor Ken Houk’s group hosted the live virtual symposium at UCLA in a conference room in the Molecular Sciences Building. The virtual symposium, projected on to a screen via YouTube, featured talks by Professor Olivier […]

The team has discovered an unexpected organization of antimicrobial molecules which amplify inflammation. Professor Gerard Wong, a member of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and the UCLA Department of Bioengineering, was the study’s senior author. Dr. Ernest Lee, the study’s co-first author, a medical student in the UCLA–Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program, completed his Ph.D. […]