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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]