Members of the department gathered to celebrate the recent promotion and tenure of Professors Louis Bouchard, Margot Quinlan and Jorge Torres. In her toast to the honorees at the July […]

NIH has renewed the innovative CMB Training Program that supports PhD students in the biomedical sciences including those in the BMSB and Chemistry programs. This award from the National Institutes […]

The first of the Daniel Atkinson & Charles West Prizes in Metabolic Biochemistry were presented to four biochemistry students at commencement ceremonies in June. Please help us to support the […]

Min Woo (Mitchell) Kim (’16) (Courey group) received the awards for his service to the community and his undergraduate research work. Kim recently graduated with summa cum laude honors with […]

Video and select photos from the 2016 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony are now available for viewing. At the ceremony on Saturday, June 11, 2016, the UCLA Chemistry […]

The American Chemical Society (ACS) paid tribute to the accomplishments of Professor William Gelbart in a special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. The July 7, 2016 issue, published […]

Former biochemistry graduate student Piriya “Pete” Wongkongkathep received a Best Student Paper award from the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (IJMS). Wongkongkathep (Ph.D. Biochemistry ’15 – Joseph Loo Group) received […]

Graduate student Marco Messina (advised by Maynard & Spokoyny) & postdoc Jon Axtell (Spokoyny group) led the team whose research was featured. The paper titled “Visible-Light-Induced Olefin Activation Using 3D […]