Professor Timothy Deming has been awarded the 2015-2016 Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award. As a Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair, Professor Deming will conduct a collaborative research project in France from February to July 2016. He will be hosted by Professors Henri Cramail, Director, and Sébastien Lecommandoux, Deputy Director, of the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO) […]

Research team, led by Professors Paul Weiss and Xiangfeng Duan, creates graphene barrier to control molecules precisely for making nanobiosensors. Graduate student John C. Thomas (Weiss group) and alumna Dr. Shan Jiang (Ph.D. ’14 Duan Group) were also part of the research team. They are also members of UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute, as are all […]

UCLA lecturer and author Eric Scerri is quoted in recent Smithsonian.com article about the future of the periodic table. In addition to being a world authority on the history and philosophy of the periodic table, Dr. Scerri is an author and editor of several books and a full-time lecturer in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named the Jacques Beaulieu Chair at the Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications of the INRS in Montreal for 2016-2017. Prof. Weiss will receive a $70,000 award and will visit the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) to give a series of lectures with the goal of establishing lasting scientific collaborations. […]

On January 13th, Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (University of Illinois) presented the Winter 2016 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture.                                           Prof. Hammes-Schiffer, the Swanlund Professor of Chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, gave a […]

The Biochemistry Association for Student Enrichment (BiochemASE) is the first undergraduate student society serving UCLA students interested in biochemistry.  Biochemistry is a unique topic and major at UCLA in that it requires many prerequisite courses before students really get to experience what it is. In fact, it may not be until into their 3rd year […]

Alumnus Vincent Pecoraro (BS biochemistry ’77) has been awarded the prestigious ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. Prof. Pecoraro is the John T. Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received his B.S. in biochemistry at UCLA in 1977 and his Ph.D. in […]

Professor David Eisenberg and postdoctoral scholar Alice Soragni are part of UCLA research team to develop a promising novel method to treat gynecologic tumors. Their approach borrows from the technique of inhibiting protein fibers that cause Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. High-grade serous ovarian cancers are aggressive tumors and most patients relapse despite standard therapy UCLA […]