Graduate student Elaine Qian (Spokoyny lab) is one of nine women selected to receive the ACS Women Chemists Committee’s 2nd Annual Merck Research Award. The American Chemistry Society (ACS) Women Chemists […]

Professor Steve Clarke has been awarded the 2018 William C Rose Award by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). This award recognizes outstanding contributions to biochemical and […]

Professor Michael Teitell (BS biochemistry ’85) has been named director of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. “Mike is a wonderful colleague and collaborator” said UCLA biochemistry professor Dr. Carla […]

On August 3, 2017, the department hosted a reception for all undergraduate and high school students who conduct research in faculty labs.  The student researchers gathered with their faculty mentors, […]

Professor Paula Diaconescu is playing a leading role in a new UCLA NSF-funded program to train graduate students on issues of sustainable food, energy and water. Thanks to a five-year, […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri’s public lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain is featured in the British newspaper The Wharf. Scerri’s July 20th lecture at the […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny has received a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA or R35) award from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the […]

Professor and Vice Chair James Bowie has been selected as a 2018 Fellow by the Biophysical Society. Bowie is being honored for his “seminal contributions to our understanding of the folding […]