Graduate student Guillaume Urtecho (Kosuri group) is one of three UCLA graduate students to receive a prestigious 2018 MBI Teaching Excellence Award. The inaugural MBI Roy & Dorothy John/Fred Eiserling & Judith Lengyel Teaching Excellence Awards, given to graduate students in their 4th or 5th year of the Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Doctoral Program (MBIDP), were […]

We are sad to report that alumna Catherine Leetola passed away at the age of 34 on December 28, 2018, after a courageous two-year cancer battle. Catherine was born January 11, 1984, in Castro Valley, California to Thomas and Mary (Coble) Leettola. Her life-long love of science lead her to UC San Diego where she […]

Two giants in the science of electron cryo-microscopy were awarded the 2018 Glenn Seaborg Medal in recognition of their crucial contributions to the field. Professor Emeritus Robert Glaeser (University of California, Berkeley) and Dr. Richard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) developed cryo-electron microscopy for high resolution structure determination of large protein assemblies. Henderson was […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected a fellow of the prestigious European Academy of Sciences. A UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of materials science and engineering, Kaner holds the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation.   Kaner received his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. After carrying […]

Alumna Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17 Andrews/P Weiss Groups), an ETH Zürich postdoctoral fellow, receives the 2018 Norma Stoddart Prize.  Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart presented the award at Nakatsuka’s Stoddart Lecture on November 28, 2018, at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute. Nakatsuka, currently a postdoc at ETH in Zürich with Professor Janos Vörös in the Laboratory […]

Garg group members undergraduate student Melinda Nguyen and PhD student Bryan Simmons named 2019 Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation Scholars. 2019 Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation Scholars (MBCF) Scholars is a highly competitive program that recognizes stellar undergraduate and graduate student researchers.  Read more about the program here. Melinda and Bryan will attend the 14th […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 12 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on December 4, 2018. The CCHF is an NSF-funded Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) to which the Professor Ken Houk’s group belongs.  Projected to students and postdocs via YouTube, the symposium featured talks by Professor Jin-Quan Yu […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, postdocs, grad students, and undergrads helped make the 2018 Exploring Your Universe event a huge success. At the November 4, 2018, event on the UCLA campus, Chemistry Professor Richard Kaner gave an afternoon science talk titled “Fun with Plastics”, and several student groups and labs hosted fun interactive booths, which are […]