UCLA chemist Professor Alexander Spokoyny is among 24 early-career scientists nationwide to be named a 2018 Cottrell Scholar.  Spokoyny will receive a $100,000 award for his project, “Atomically-Precise Nanomaterials Based on Inorganic Clusters”. Additionally, he will use the award to support the UCLA Prison Education Program, of which he is a faculty team member. The program, […]

Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was honored at the Hawthorne Lecture on January 31, 2018. In his lecture titled “Palladium-Based Methodology in Imaging and Bioconjugation”, Buchwald presented the recent work conducted in his laboratory focused on the development of new metal-mediated methods for bioconjugation. Photos from the events can be viewed on the on-line photo […]

Professor Carla Koehler was one of five researchers to speak at the prestigious “Mitochondria and Medicine: The 2017 Dr Paul Janssen Award Symposium” last year. A video of Koehler’s seminar, “Mitochondrial Protein Transport and Disease: Another Block in the Wall”, can be viewed here. Her seminar was part of the second session titled “Understanding the […]

Professor Jean-François Joanny (ESPCI Paris and Institut Curie Paris) gave the 4th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on January 22, 2018.   The lecture, entitled “Physics of Tissue Monolayers”, was well-attended by colleagues, students, and friends and was followed by a question-and-answer period and then by a reception in the Young Hall Cafe Commons. Select […]

Professor Ken Houk is one of the featured speakers at a special symposium at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, the topic of the 2017 Dreyfus prize awarded to Professor Michele Parrinello (from the ETH Zürich), is the focus of the symposium which is […]

We are sad to report that emeritus Professor Roberts (Bob) Smith passed away peacefully at the age of 89 on January 25, 2018 following a brief illness. Please help us support the Roberts A. Smith Graduate Award for the Study of Biochemistry for undergraduate and graduate student research fellowships. Professor Smith was one of the […]

We are sad to report that former long-time UCLA laboratory supervisor Kerstin E Stempel passed away on January 15, 2018. For 34 years Stempel served as a laboratory supervisor for three different research labs at UCLA. Biochemistry professor Paul D. Boyer received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research he conducted while Stempel was supervising his […]

Professor Shimon Weiss leads team to develop nanosensors that can be directly inserted into a cell’s lipid membrane and be used to measure membrane potential.  The devices, which are based on inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles, could potentially record action potentials from multiple neurons as well as electrical signals on the nanoscale – for example, across just […]