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 National Institutes of Health, has awarded Spokoyny, an assistant professor of chemistry, $1.8 million over five years to work on atomically-precise nanomaterials. The MIRA program […]

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 and stability of membrane proteins”. A pioneer in developing techniques for studying membrane protein folding, Bowie’s research has provided important insights into the physical forces […]

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 age of 88 in Houston, Texas following a stroke.   Born on October 28, 1928, in Anna, Illinois, Carol was raised on a peach and […]

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 Show” is considered by many to be the world’s best science broadcast program. Harran was interviewed for the one-hour radio show when Williams recently visited […]

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 Cancer Research award to a UCLA pediatric physician-scientist in over 15 years. He will conduct his research along with the Young Investigator recipients from 12 […]

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 his colleagues were recognized for their work with the UCCLS. Professor Nancy Wayne (UCLA Physiology), Chair of the UCCLS advisory board and associate vice chancellor […]

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 and Biochemistry 2017 Alumni award was presented to commencement speaker Dr. Sep Sarshar ’89, Principal, Peritus Partners. Sarshar was joined at the event by several […]

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 in recognition of his group’s “recent advancement on the design of highly efficient electrocatalysts and electrochemical energy storage devices and for their development of a […]