UCLA researchers, led by Professor David Eisenberg, have identified compounds that target amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases. UCLA chemists and molecular biologists have for the first time used a “structure-based” approach to drug design to identify compounds with the potential to delay or treat Alzheimer’s disease, and possibly Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease […]

PhysOrg reported on the development by Professor Kendall Houk, Dr. Yong Liang (Houk Group) and colleagues of a new chemical reaction with the potential to lower the cost and streamline medicine manufacturing. Professor Ken Houk, UCLA’s Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry and Dr. Yong Liang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Houk Research Group at […]

Graduate student Crystal Valdez (Alexandrova Group) was part of the official video blog team of the 63rd Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau. Nobel Laureate Meeting @ Youtube.com: When 34 Nobel Laureates come together in Lindau with 625 young researchers from almost 80 countries, the spirit of diversity is everywhere. But are there common threads that bind […]

The Daily Bruin featured two UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students who helped to bring medical aid to 300+ people in the Philippines. Yancey Cashell of the UCLA Daily Bruin highlights biochemistry undergraduate students Victoria Mercado and Aldrich Albano who represented the UCLA student group, Pilipinos for Community Health, in their journey to Antique, Philippines. […]

The Times Higher Education (UK) World University Rankings 2012-2013 (powered by Thompson Reuters) ranked UCLA Physical Sciences number 9 and UCLA number 13 in the world.

The presentation of the 2013 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award and commencement speeches presented by sisters, Dr. Judith Swain (UCLA B.S., 1970) and Dr. Julie Swain (UCLA B.S., 1970), is available for viewing online. JUDITH L. SWAIN, M.D. & JULIE A. SWAIN, M.D. – RECIPIENTS OF THE UCLA CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY 2013 ALUMNI AWARD AND PRESENTERS […]

Chemistry World has published an article highlighting Saul Winstein, Herbert Brown, and George Olah’s debates regarding the non-classical cation and its legacy on the field of chemistry. “These battles of will help to give chemistry its vitality, able to argue through its problems with all the verve of a fractious family” (Excerpt from “The Nonclassical Cation: A Classic […]

Work on viral capsids for gene delivery, from the research group of Professors William Gelbart and Charles Knobler, was the highlighted article of the June 20, 2013 issue of the journal Virology.  The Gelbart/Knobler research group has recently demonstrated that RNA genes can be packaged in vitro in virus-like particles made from the capsid protein of a […]