Postdoctoral fellow Calin Plesa (Sri Kosuri’s group) wins prestigious Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI). Chosen from a total applicant pool of 287, Plesa is among 11 scientists who are being honored for combining biology with the physical sciences and engineering toward medical breakthroughs. The award will allow Plesa to […]

Professors Louis Bouchard and Paul Weiss are part of team whose discovery could be a step toward developing treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases. An associate professor in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bouchard‘s group conducts research in a variety of fields ranging from catalysis to biomedicine. They specialize in the development of measurement […]

Renovation has begun to transform 6,500 square foot former department library space on 4th floor of Young Hall into the Mani Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory. Expected to be completed by Summer 2019, the Collaboratory will be the heart of student life in the department, providing students and faculty with a much-needed lecture hall, private meeting and […]

With the Arnold group at Caltech, Houk’s group characterizes an unusual reactive carbene intermediate in an artificial metalloenzyme that functionalizes Si-H bonds. The team’s findings were reported in a paper published in the June 26, 2018, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The group of Prof. Frances Arnold, Department of […]

Alumnus Florida State University chemistry professor Richard Glick (PhD ’54) passed away on June 1, 2018, at the age of 91. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Glick joined the U.S. Navy after graduating from high school  He served as a corpsman and pharmacist mate at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital and on a hospital ship as […]

Undergraduate student researchers Isaac Diaz (Spokoyny group) and Jenna Molas (Kaner group) have been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.  The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced DegreeS (UC LEADS) program is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by the University of California system. Each year this honor is awarded to up […]

The team reported on a new on-chip “tool” that helps to “see” & identify the key process that hinders the performance of catalyst used in fuel cells. The tool will help scientists find respective solutions more efficiently. The work was led by Xiangfeng Duan, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Yu Huang, a […]

Professor Michael Jung was the co-awardee of the Amgen Early Innovator Award at the UCLA Biomedical & Life Science Innovation Day 2018. The award was presented to Jung, a distinguished professor of chemistry, and his co-awardee Daniel H. Geschwind, a distinguished professor of neurology and psychiatry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, for […]