The UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC) is pleased to announce the opening of its newest lab, the High Throughput Synthesis and Catalysis Facility (HTSC). High throughput experimentation (HTE) has garnered […]

Entropic Biosciences, Inc., a start-up biotech company founded at UCLA in Professor Paul Weiss’ group based on the thesis of alumnus Dr. Amir Nasajpour (Ph.D. ’23), is one of only […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given $19.8 million in renewal funding for the BioPACIFIC MIP, a UCLA–UC Santa Barbara collaboration advancing biobased materials through synthetic biology, chemistry, automation, and […]

Chemistry Ph.D. candidate, U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Tillman Scholar, and facilitator for Veterans in STEM, Jason Q.L. Williams (P. Weiss group), is featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article about […]

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry welcomes emerging pedagogy scholar Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor on July 1, 2025.  “The division of physical […]

Dr. Gustavo G. Flores-Bernal has been selected for the University of California (UC) Alianza MX Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, beginning in the 2025–26 academic year. He will join Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez‘s […]

Distinguished Professor Michael Jung and his UCLA collaborators are featured in a recent New York Magazine article about their groundbreaking research on a potential cure for baldness. The New York Magazine article […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has appointed Professor Sarah Tolbert as the inaugural Charles and Carolyn Knobler Endowed Term Chair, effective retroactively to July 1, 2025. The Charles […]