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 use an array of tools ranging from synthetic chemistry and chemical biology to bioinformatics and microbiology to uncover new enzymatic functions and microbial metabolites at […]

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. in Schoenberg Hall. In his lecture, titled “Drug Discovery in Academia: Some Success Stories,” Jung will describe the process of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery […]

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 compartmentalized AMPK signaling in single cells”, won in the “Chemical and Metabolic Innovations in Biology” category at the competition held during the ASBMB annual meeting […]

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 High-throughput Direct to Biology Approach to Identify Novel CREBBP and EP300 Degraders”, sponsored by Genentech. SURF is the premier national undergraduate fellowship award for organic chemistry.  “Being […]

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 enables deep, precise in vivo printing using liposome-encapsulated cross-linking agents and tunable bioinks, overcoming key limitations of traditional implant methods. Their paper, “Imaging-guided deep tissue […]

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 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral (PGS D), while Ho received a Croucher scholarship. The Canadian NSERC PGS […]

Professors Juli Feigon and Sabeeha Merchant are among 12 trailblazing female scientists featured in the inaugural “Pioneers in Molecular Biology” issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology (JMB). The Special Issue of June 1, 2025, highlights the backgrounds and contributions of individuals who have pioneered major advances within the field of molecular biology. This inaugural […]

Professors David Eisenberg and Jose Rodriguez were recently featured in a UCLA Newsroom article about World Parkinson’s Day. Professor David Eisenberg is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA is known for his pioneering research in protein structure and function. His lab’s research is entirely in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Professor Jose Rodriguez […]