Led by Professors Gerard Wong and Andrea Kasko, UCLA Scientists have engineered antibiotics that effectively attack persister cells, which are responsible for making bacteria resistant to new drugs. UCLA Newsroom (By Shaun Mason): We face an urgent global health problem because scientists are not developing new antibiotics as fast as bacteria are developing antibiotic resistance. […]

UCLA Newsroom wrote a feature on Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate student, Emily Gordon, who is seeking to compete in the 2016 Olympics. UCLA Newsroom (Emilia Barrosse): Less than a year ago, Emily Gordon was a junior biochemistry major at UCLA aiming to become a lab researcher. Now, she’s being scouted to compete in the 2016 […]

Liana Hie (Garg Lab) has been awarded the 2014-15 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship, sponsored by Amgen. The 2014-15 fellowship recognizes outstanding third and fourth year graduate students in organic chemistry and provides a stipend for $26,000, which includes $750 for travel to the 2015 National Organic Symposium (NOS) where […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry alumnus, Dr. Satya Majeti, has been honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) with the 2014 Heroes of Chemistry Award. Since 1996, the ACS Heroes of Chemistry program has recognized chemical scientists whose work in various fields of chemistry and chemical engineering has led to the successful innovation and development of […]

UCLA researchers discover that rare disorder is caused when enzyme goes to the wrong location in cell. UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Research by UCLA biochemists may lead to a new treatment — or even a cure — for PH1, a rare and potentially deadly genetic kidney disease that afflicts children. Their findings also may […]

Dr. Román Macaya (Ph.D., 1993, Feigon Group) was recently appointed as Costa Rica’s ambassador to the United States. Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís appointed Macaya, a 47-year-old businessman who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, during a press conference at Casa Presidencial in August 2014. Short Biography: Ambassador Macaya was the […]

UCLA Newsroom recently featured Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate student, Megan Cory, who formed a campus group to educate the public on ways to prevent diabetes. UCLA Newsroom (By Enrique Rivero): It seems that everything in Megan Cory’s life has pointed her toward a career in medicine. It’s what she has wanted to do all her […]

Professor Heather Maynard and colleagues have developed a novel glycopolymer to be used as the resist in the direct patterning of active biomolecules by electron beam lithography. Invention: A Novel Glycopolymer for Direct Write of Biomolecules by Lithography Innovation: Dr. Heather Maynard and colleagues at UCLA have developed a novel glycopolymer to stabilize biomolecules under radiation […]