Professors Matthew Nava and Danielle Schmitt receive 2025 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Awards. These awards honor the considerable dedication of faculty mentors who have served as effective research mentors to […]

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard E. “Dick” Dickerson, a giant in structural biology, passed away peacefully on May 14, 2025, at the age of 93. He was surrounded by his family […]

The department welcomes talented microbial chemist, Dr. Antonio Tinoco Valencia, who will join the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2025. At UCLA, the Tinoco group will […]

Professor Michael Jung, UCLA’s Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, will present the Academic Senate’s 130th Faculty Research Lecture on Friday, June 6, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. […]

Kasey Parks, a third-year chemistry undergraduate in the Schmitt group, is a winner in the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) annual Undergraduate Poster Competition.  Parks’ poster, titled “Illuminating […]

Biochemistry undergraduate researcher Tanya D’Souza (Conway group) has been named a recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Organic Chemistry (DOC) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for her research project, “A […]

Professor Paul S. Weiss, graduate student Jason Williams, and two Weiss group alumni are part of a research team that has developed an imaging-guided ultrasound 3D printing platform. This technology […]

Graduate students Arwen Ying Cai (Alexandrova and Diaconescu groups), Calvin Ho (Doyle group), and Samuel Hugie (Doyle group) have been awarded prestigious international graduate scholarships. Cai and Hugie received the […]