Professor Anne Andrews and colleagues have published that early exposure to antidepressants affects adult anxiety and serotonin transmission. About 15 percent of women in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders and depression during their pregnancies, and many are prescribed antidepressants. However little is known about how early exposure to these medications might affect their […]

Professors Sabeeha Merchant, Joseph Loo, and colleagues have found that some cells build intracellular compartments that allow the cell to store metals and maintain equilibrium. LLNL.Gov (By Anne M. Stark): [In the December 2014 printed edition of Nature Chemical Biology, researchers at UCLA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have reported] that some cells build intracellular […]

Graduate student Jeffrey Vinokur and his act as the “Dancing Scientist” was recently profiled by ASBMB Today. ASBMB Today (By Maggie Kuo): The Dancing Scientist is decked out like a rock star in a bejeweled lab coat and Bono-like lab glasses. He is on the set of ABC’s TV show “The View,” standing by glass […]

Professor David Eisenberg has been awarded the first Switzer Prize for Biomedical Discovery. The Switzer prize is in honor of Irma and Norman Switzer, whose estate gave an unrestricted gift of $50 million to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to advance research in medicine and health. The purpose of the prize is […]

Professor Michael Jung has been elected as a 2014 NAI Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors. The NAI Fellows Program has 414 Fellows worldwide representing more than 150 prestigious universities and governmental and non-profit research institutions. Collectively, the Fellows hold nearly 14,000 issued U.S. patents. This professional distinction is bestowed upon academic inventors who have […]

The Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) recently debuted its first college community demo training program at UCLA. On Saturday, November 22, 2014, the Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS)* debuted its first college community demo training program at UCLA. OCDS bused over 35 energized students from East Los Angeles College (ELAC), a […]

Professor Paul Weiss and James Hohman have devised a facile route to synthesize designer gallium-based alloy microscale and nanoscale materials with precise elemental ratios and excellent uniformity. Alloy nanoparticle synthesis is typically very challenging and traditional synthetic approaches suffer from elemental incompatibility, the need to use costly vacuum technologies, and limitations of composition range and […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry alumnus, Professor Curt Breneman (B.S. 1980), was recently named as the Dean of the School of Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. news.rpi.edu (By Mary Martialay): Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the appointment of Curt Breneman as Dean of the School of Science. The appointment is effective January 1, 2015. “It’s […]