Professor Jose Rodriguez, a biochemist, was recently named one of C&EN’s Talented Twelve. Jose Rodriguez picked up structural biology first as a hobby. In his free time while working on […]

Paul Weiss and the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital have been awarded a $100,000 St Baldrick’s Foundation grant. Weiss, UC presidential chair and distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, materials science and engineering, […]

On August 14, 2018, the Houk Group hosted a Virtual Symposium on synthetic organic chemistry. The quarterly American Chemical Society (ACS)-DOC Virtual Symposium was viewed “live” by students and postdocs […]

Professor Ohyun Kwon, an organic chemist, has recently been awarded a $200,000 Technology Development Grant. The Technology Development Grant comes from the University of California Center for Accelerated Innovation (UC […]

The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Professor Juli Feigon its 2019 Founders Award winner. Feigon will be honored at the Society’s 63rd Annual Meeting at the Baltimore Convention Center on […]

Professor Ohyun Kwon, an organic chemist, has been awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Green Chemistry Award for 2018. Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. As […]

Joyann Barber, a PhD student in Professor Neil Garg’s group, has been awarded a 2018-2019 Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.  The Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) fellowship awardees are […]

The team has discovered a chemical reaction that might someday be used to process petroleum waste into useful compounds. Their paper titled “Teaching an old carbocation new tricks: Intermolecular C–H […]