Professor James Liao has been appointed the 11th president of Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s collection of national laboratories.  One of the worldwide most appreciated experts in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, Liao obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the National Taiwan University in 1980. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in […]

Professor Richard Kaner is one of 57 distinguished members of the American Chemical Society (ACS) who have been named as 2016 ACS Fellows.   The prestigious ACS Fellows Program recognizes and honors members of the American Chemical Society for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to the science and the profession as well as exemplary […]

To honor our three newly tenured faculty we will feature a profile of our new associate professors each week, starting with Professor Louis Bouchard.   In the following weeks we will profile Profs. Margot Quinlan and Jorge Torres.  Bouchard obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics and business management from McGill University in Montréal, Canada, a […]

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 […]