Graduate students Michael Corsello (Garg) & Jessica Grandner (Houk) presented their graduate research at the ACS DOC’s annual Graduate Research Symposium.
  The 7th annual American Chemistry Society (ACS) Division of […]

Professor and Vice Chair James Bowie has been named the recipient of the 2017 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award by the Biophysical Society (BPS).  The award recognizes outstanding investigators who make […]

Professor Yi Tang has been selected as the recipient of the Mr and Mrs Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry.  Established in 1998 by Sunney Chan, then director of […]

The discovery by Elena Grintsevich, Emil Reisler, and their collaborators from the University of Texas, was recently featured in Nature Cell Biology.  Numerous cellular functions depend on actin filament (F-actin) […]

This summer, six students from three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) will contribute to UCLA research projects.  The goal of the Summer Research and Admission Pathways Program is to […]

Members of the department and the UCLA community gathered to celebrate the retirement of biochemistry professor Richard Weiss and MIC director Jane Strouse. More than 60 people attended the reception […]

To conclude the Faculty Spotlight series of our newly tenured faculty (Bouchard, Quinlan & Torres), this week’s feature focuses on Professor Jorge Torres. Torres received his B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, […]

Professors Jim Bowie, Patrick Harran and Yung-Ya Lin have agreed to serve as the new Vice Chairs of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Bowie will serve as Vice Chair […]