This summer, we bid farewell to former Teacher-Scholars Mackenzie Anderson and Huiling Shao, and we welcome our newest Teacher-Scholars Anneka Miller Casas and Cindy Sining Wang. Our Teacher-Scholar program allows […]

UCLA Professors Anne Andrews (Chemistry & Biochemistry) and Andrea Bertozzi (Mathematics) have developed a breakthrough method to identify DNA-based aptamers for detecting stress hormones. By combining machine learning with chemical […]

From UCLA Newsroom (by Lucy Berbeo): A $3 million commitment from physicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Mani L. Bhaumik will allow UCLA to establish a program for recruiting postdoctoral fellows in […]

Chemistry Ph.D. candidate and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Jason Q.L. Williams (P. Weiss group) is named a Tillman Scholar for the class of 2025. Williams is among an elite group […]

The department welcomes world-class computational chemical biologist Professor Steffen Lindert, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Associate Professor on July 1, 2025. “It is a distinct pleasure to welcome […]

Chemical biology Ph.D. candidate  AJ Addae (P. Weiss/Caram groups) recently delivered a TEDx talk highlighting her journey in using scientific research to close inclusivity gaps in the beauty industry by […]

BMSB graduate student Lily Taylor (Rodriguez group) is the 2025 graduate student recipient of the Arnold J. Berk Research Achievement Award, presented by the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) at UCLA. […]

This June, Professors Heather Maynard and Neil Garg – both New York natives – had the opportunity to return to their roots as plenary speakers at the 49th National Organic […]