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 […]

Craig Merlic, head of the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety (UCCLS), led the investigation of a lab explosion at the University of Hawai’i.  The March 16, 2016 blast […]

The significant invention by Yves Rubin & coworkers was recently reported in the first issue of Chem, a new journal published by Cell Press. Prof. Yves Rubin and his coworkers […]