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 11th event, Department Chair Prof. Catherine Clarke said of the group, “Each earned tenure with their impressive and distinguished records of research, teaching and service. […]

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 of Health (NIH)’s National Institute of General Medical Services (NIGMS) will total almost $4.4 million over the next five years. The CMB program enhances the […]

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 Atkinson/West fund for graduate and undergraduate students.Biochemistry graduate students Megan Sjodt (Robert Clubb group) and Andrea Hadjikyriacou (Steven Clarke group) and Biochemistry undergraduates Thao Luong […]

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 his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Master of Science in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Structural Biology through the Departmental Scholars program. For the past two […]

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 and Biochemistry 2016 Alumni award was presented to commencement speaker physician Dr. Richard Buller (UCLA Chemistry ’71), Vice President of Oncology Clinical Development, Pfizer. Buller […]

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 in his honor, is titled The William M. Gelbart Festschrift  with cover art created by Gelbart’s daughter, artist Eva Gelbart. This volume celebrated Gelbart’s 70th […]

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 “Best Applied Paper” honor for the paper titled “Enhancing Protein Disulfide Bong Cleavage by UV Excitation and Electron Capture Dissociation for Top-Down Mass Spectrometry” published […]

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 Aromatic Boron-Rich Cluster Photooxidants” was published in the May 17, 2016, issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). It was highlighted in […]