Professor Rachelle Crosbie-Watson (Ph.D. 1994, Reisler Group) received the 2014 Lotus Award from Coalition Duchenne for her outstanding contributions to Duchenne muscular dystrophy education, research, and awareness. The award included a $10,000 grant payable to the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA for Prof. Crosbie-Watson’s education initiatives. The award ceremony was part of the […]

Professor Sri Kosuri’s work with alternative rock band OK Go to help release their newest album, encoded into DNA, has been highlighted by the New Yorker and Popular Science. Popular Science (By Francie Diep): OK Go, the band behind viral music videos like that one with the treadmills, plans to release its newest album encoded […]

Megan Cory, an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry was featured by KPCC in a radio clip discussing her campaign to fight diabetes. KPCC (By Elizabeth Aguilera): A young woman is diagnosed with diabetes. Her response: conduct a frontal assault against it in society. Megan Cory learned she had the disease around the […]

Professors Ken Houk, Yi Tang, and colleagues have won HPCwire’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Award for the “Best Use of HPC (High-performance computing) Application in Life Sciences”. HPCwire.com: Every year, HPCwire conducts their annual Readers’ Choice Awards to recognize the best and the brightest developments that happened in HPC over the last 12 months. These awards, which […]

New nanoscale protein container developed by Professor Todd Yeates and colleagues could lead to synthetic vaccines and offer a way to deliver medicine inside of human cells. UCLA Newsroom (By Stuart Wolpert): UCLA biochemists have created the largest-ever protein that self-assembles into a molecular “cage.” The research could lead to synthetic vaccines that protect people […]

The new process developed by Professor James Liao and colleagues could reduce carbon dioxide emissions and lower production costs. UCLA Newsroom (By Matthew Chin): Researchers at UCLA have developed a more efficient way to turn methanol into useful chemicals, such as liquid fuels, and that would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Methanol, which is a […]

On November 7, 2014, the Graduate Student Affairs Office held its first annual Outreach and Diversity Day, co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The event was created as a recruiting mechanism to invite prospective students from diversity-sponsored programs to visit the UCLA campus and learn more about graduate life in our department. Students from […]

Professor Todd Yeates and colleagues have designed a hollow cube out of naturally occurring proteins, something that was previously only possible with DNA. The custom-built protein structures might be used for drug delivery, or as reaction or crystallisation vessels. RSC Chemistry World (By Katrina Kramer): Researchers have been engineering DNA into custom nanostructures (DNA origami) […]