Postdoctoral scholar Dayan Elshan (Jung group) won first place in the cancer category for his poster at the UCLA Biomedical and Life Science Innovation Day 2018. Elshan received a $750 prize for his poster titled “Androgen Receptor Degraders and Signaling Axis Inhibitors Targeting Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer”. At the June 13th event held at the Luskin Center, […]

Alumna Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17) was chosen to serve as one of two student processional marshals for the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. At the 2018 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony on June 14, 2018, Nakatsuka and her co-marshal, Eric Hosbach Newman from the Department of English, led the march of graduates in and out of Royce Hall, delivered a […]

UCLA chemistry and biochemistry assistant professors Hosea Nelson and Jose Rodriguez (BS ’07, PhD ’12) have been selected as 2018 Pew Scholars. The honor provides funding to outstanding young researchers whose work is relevant to the advancement of human health. The Pew Scholars, who were selected from 184 nominations, will receive four-year, $300,000 grants to […]

Professor Ellen Sletten is one of thirteen UCLA junior faculty members selected to receive the prestigious UCLA Hellman Fellows award. The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established in 2011 through the generosity of the Hellman Fellows Fund to help promising assistant professors with their research and creative endeavors, in hopes of promoting career advancement and […]

The team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, reported on their development of a new process for assembling seminconductor devices. The study titled “Approaching the Schottky–Mott limit in van der Waals metal–semiconductor junctions” was published in the May 16, 2018, issue of the prestigious journal Nature. The research team was led by Duan, UCLA professor of […]

Fourteen chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers receive the 2018-2019 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filing their dissertation. It includes a $20,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees (excluding nonresident tuition). Each year, approximately 200 Dissertation Year […]

Four dynamic speakers are scheduled for our 2018-19 Distinguished Lecture Series: George Whitesides, David Schuster, Joanna Aizenberg, & Zhenan Bao. The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a department-wide colloquium in a special week once per quarter when there are no other seminars in our department. The lectures are open to the public.  […]

On June 4th, leading nanoscience researcher Professor Mostafa El-Sayed (Georgia Institute of Technology) gave the 2018 Daniel Kivelson Lecture.  A standing-room-only crowd attended El-Sayed’s lecture titled “Nanotechnology Enables Hot Gold Nanorods to Kill Cancer Cells and to Stop Them from Migrating to Other Sites” which was followed by a reception. The Kivelson lecture celebrates and honors […]