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 […]

We are sad to report that Carol West, wife of UCLA biochemistry professor emeritus Charles West, passed away on July 21, 2017. Carol died peacefully at her home at the […]

Professor Patrick Harran discussed his research on the molecule DZ-2384 in a recent interview with science journalist Robyn Williams on the popular radio program. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s “The Science […]

UCLA researcher Steven J. Jonas M.D./Ph.D. (Paul Weiss group) was selected for a 2017 Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) Young Investigator Grant. Jonas’ grant is the first ALSF for Childhood […]

The UCLA Center for Laboratory Safety, directed by Professor Craig Merlic, has received a 2017 CSHEMA Innovation Award. UCCLS executive director Merlic, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and […]

Video and select photos from the 2017 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony are now available for viewing. At the ceremony on Saturday, June 17, 2017, the UCLA Chemistry […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan has been selected by the International Society of Electrochemistry as the winner of the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry. The Society selected Duan for the award […]