The American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable, a partnership between the ACS Green Chemistry Institute and member corporations in the pharmaceutical field, has awarded Professor Neil Garg its first research grant specifically directed toward greener medicinal chemistry. His proposed research, titled “Development of Green Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions,” will focus on using a seldom-employed […]

Yi Tang is one of 10 researchers nationwide who were selected to receive an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The award supports investigators taking “highly innovative approaches that have the potential to produce a high impact on a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research.” Information about the Pioneer Award can be found at this NIH […]

Louis Bouchard is one of five young investigators to receive a 2012 Beckman Young Investigator Award. The award was presented to Louis during a ceremony at the Beckman headquarters in Irvine earlier this August. Additional information is available at the Beckman site.

Recently released 2012 Academic Rankings of World Universities by Shanghai Rating Consultancy puts UCLA overall at #12 and our department at #13. We moved two steps up from #15 in 2011, and we are #8 in the USA. We also improved according to the 2012 QS World University Rankings published earlier this year. Our Department […]

UCLA undergraduate students proudly hosted the 2012 UCLA InnoWorks Academy program from July 30 -­ Aug 3, 2012 in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. This scientific workshop, entitled “Making Sense of the Senses,” was organized by the talented UCLA InnoWorks student members and their faculty advisor, Professor Neil Garg. The students served as mentors […]

High resolution Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) shows cooperative binding of drebrin to single actin filaments and reveals the resulting change in their structure. The observed nanoscale structural changes modify the binding of other actin binding proteins and contribute to the unique properties of neuronal cytoskeletons. The discovery will help researchers to further analyze the role […]

Xiangfeng Duan was awarded the 2012 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship for his contributions to the field of materials chemistry. This Lectureship is an annual award that honors a younger scientist who has made a significant contribution to the field. Information about the JMC Lectureship is available at this site. In addition, Xiangfeng is one […]

Alexandrova Lab has published a VIP paper in Angewandte Chemie where they report on their discovery of a photo-driven molecular Wankel motor, B13+. This cluster has the dual-ring structure. The motor is driven by circularly-polarized infrared electromagnetic radiation. Calculations show that this illumination leads to a guided unidirectional rotation of the outer ring, which is […]