Professors Hosea Nelson & Jose Rodriguez have been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Nelson and Rodriguez each more than $1.8 million over five years to support their research programs. […]

More than 80 scientists from around the world attended the International Congress on Theoretical Aspects of Catalysis (ICTAC) at UCLA June 24-28, 2018.  The conference, held at the UCLA Faculty Center, was organized by UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Professors Philippe Sautet and Anastassia Alexandrova with assistance from Divisional Assistant Stephanie Hotz. ICTAC is a biannual […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert will serve as Director of the SCALAR center which will seek to increase battery capacity, stability and safety. Tolbert holds faculty appointments in Chemistry & Biochemistry and in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her current research interests include self-organized nanoscale materials for electronic, magnetic, optical, and structural applications, with a specific focus […]

Photos from the 2018 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony and a video of Dr Harlan Amstutz’s commencement address are now available. At the ceremony on Saturday, June 16, 2018, the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry 2018 Alumni Award was presented to commencement speaker Dr. Harlan Amstutz (’53, MD ’56), founding director of the Joint […]

In May and June 2018, symposia in Shenzhen, China, and Vancouver, Canada, honored Ken Houk, the UCLA Saul Winstein Research Professor in Organic Chemistry.  The 2nd International Symposium on Organic Reaction Mechanisms, in Honor of Kendall N. Houk, was held May 15-16, 2018, at Peking University Graduate School in Shenzhen to honor Houk’s 75th birthday […]

Professor Jorge Torres has won the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award. The award is given annually to honor an outstanding scientist who has shown a strong commitment to encouraging underrepresented minorities to enter the scientific enterprise and who has offered effective mentorship of those within it.   […]

Professor Neil Garg has won the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education. Garg’s ASBMB award video can be viewed here and his paper, titled “How Organic Chemistry Became One of UCLA’s Most Popular Classes”, which was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry as part of his award, can […]

Six undergraduate students from four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) will contribute to research projects in department laboratories this summer. For the fourth year, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is hosting undergraduate students from various Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields for the HBCU-Pathways in Chemistry summer program. The UC-HBCU Initiative […]