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 […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Professor Emerita Robin Garrell will showcase her artwork at the annual Sylvia Winstein Emeriti/Retirees Arts and Crafts Exhibit, to be held on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the UCLA Faculty Club (formerly the UCLA Faculty Center). This campus event, organized by UCLA’s Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, […]

UCLA Teacher-Scholar alumna Professor Roshini Ramachandran, now at California State University, Monterey Bay, and UCLA Professor Chong Liu have been awarded a $137,000 grant through the AI Funding for Accelerated Study and Transformation (FAST) Challenge. Their project, “Natural Language Processing tool to analyze lower-division chemistry course evaluations”, will develop a robust natural language processing (NLP) […]

Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Haleh Alimohamadi (Wong group), and graduate students Yongjia He (Caram group), Luca McDermott Catena (Garg group), and Yessica Nelson (Spokoyny group), have been selected for the 2025 cohort of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows who will join Nobel laureates from around the world at a scholarly gathering in Lindau, Germany, […]

Professor Victoria “Tori” Barber is part of a multidisciplinary team at UCLA who are working with the L.A. County Fire Department to isolate the contaminants on the clothing of firefighters and assessing their effects on human cells. The study will help determine if personal protective equipment (PPE) contributes to firefighters’ cancer risk. Barber joined the […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan is part of a team of UCLA researchers who have developed a graphene-protected platinum catalyst that significantly extends hydrogen fuel cell lifespans, paving the way for cleaner, long-haul trucking. Published in Nature Nanotechnology, the innovation could enable fuel cells to operate for over 200,000 hours—nearly seven times the DOE’s 2050 target. From […]

Professor Ken Houk has been awarded the 2024 Prix Franco-Américain (French-American Prize) from the Société Chimique de France (French Chemical Society).  The ceremony on April 29, 2025, held at the Université Gustave Eiffel in Paris, was an occasion during which  seven biennial Grand Prizes were presented to French citizens and eight to chemists, including Houk, […]

Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Flora Fan (Doyle lab), Zach Walters (Garg lab), and Qingyang Zhou (Houk lab) have been named the 2025 Senior Foote Fellows. The Senior Foote Fellowships support our most outstanding third-year graduate students upon completion of their qualifying examination for their Ph.D. degree and the Junior Foote Fellowships support our most […]