The first seminar of the 2017 Biochemistry Summer Seminar Series, organized by the Biochemistry Graduate Student Association (gBSA), was held on July 7, 2017. Dr. Xiaoyu Xia, Precision Medicine Project Manager at City of Hope (Duarte, CA), was the first speaker. Dr. Xia, who received her Ph.D. in 2015 at UCLA working with Professor Jorge […]

Brian McVerry (PhD ’16 Kaner group) is featured in recent Los Angeles Times article about UCLA’s contribution to the creation of many businesses.  McVerry is the co-founder of Hydrophilix, Inc., a new company that is seeking ways to improve lithium ion batteries. As a UCLA graduate student he conducted research in Professor Richard Kaner‘s group.   […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) as an international fellow. Weiss was one of two first ever International Fellows and among 50 Fellows inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) on June 26, 2017 at a ceremony held in conjunction with the Academy’s 2017 Annual General Meeting […]

Professor Jeffrey Zink and alumnus Monty Liong (BS ’04, PhD ’09) are co-authors on paper featured in the first of ACS Nano’s Anniversary Virtual Issues. The paper, which has over 1000 citations, is featured in the journal’s June 2017 “Celebrating 10 Years of Nanomedicine Research” virtual issue. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of ACS Nano’s […]

Professors Michael Jung and Heather Maynard will be recognized at the 32nd annual Johnson Symposium at Stanford University on October 13, 2017.               Since its inception in 1985, the Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry has been held annually at Stanford University to honor the contributions of William S. Johnson, one […]

Six undergraduate students from two Historically Black Colleges and Universities will contribute to research projects in the department this summer. The UC-HBCU Initiative seeks to increase the number of scholars from HBCUs enrolling in UC academic doctoral programs by investing in UC-HBCU relationships. Emanuel Demissie, Toyosi Falegan, Norman Harris, Janet Nwokolo-Aniekwu, and Danae Sanders, all […]

The work of Professor Jose Rodriguez was recently highlighted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rodriguez and his research were featured on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) website and newsletter. He is a pioneer of a new molecular imaging technique called MicroED – short for “micro-electron diffraction.” The method uses beams of electrons, rather […]

This summer, thanks to our generous donors, 25 undergraduate students will conduct research in our faculty labs as summer research fellows. “Thanks to donor support I am thrilled that we can double the number of our summer undergraduate research fellows!” said Department Chair Professor Catherine F. Clarke. “When scientists think back to what got them […]