Professor Ellen Sletten and longtime collaborator Professor Oliver Bruns (NCT/UCC Dresden) have received the prestigious Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024. Sletten and Bruns are being recognized for developing an innovative method that combines short-wave infrared light with special fluorescent dyes and advanced camera technology for cancer detection during surgery. This method has the potential to […]

Professor Benjamin Schwartz recently delivered the 2024 Hush Lecture, titled “The Role of the Solvent in Chemical Identity, Chemical Reactivity, and Quantum Decoherence,” at the University of Sydney, Australia, on September 13, 2024. The Hush Fellowship Fund was established by the School of Chemistry in 2005 for the purpose of holding annual lectures by noted […]

In partnership with UCLA’s Recreation Summer Camps, Professor Neil Garg and members of his research team held their second annual, week-long summer program called “Chem Kids”. The camp provides a forum for children ages 10-12 in Los Angeles to learn the basics of organic chemistry through a host of activities. This includes hands-on teaching of concepts typically […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is excited to announce that five talented researchers and educators will be joining the department in the coming months. Please join us in welcoming them to the department! Detailed profiles of each new faculty member will be shared in the future. Dr. Dory DeWeese, a recent graduate from […]

Professor Joan Valentine is part of a team of researchers from UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology, who argue that iron was life’s earliest, and sole, transition metal. Their study, titled “Iron: Life’s primeval transition metal,” is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Valentine is a […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan and co-first author, alumna Dr. Bosi Peng (Ph.D. ’22), are part of a UCLA-led team that has developed an ultrafine platinum nanocatalyst embedded with cobalt oxide clusters, which has been shown to reduce platinum dissolution and significantly increase fuel cell efficiency and durability. Dr. Peng is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the […]

This year, 11 chemistry and biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2024-2025 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Additionally, two students from the MBIDP and MIMG programs, working in chemistry and biochemistry labs, have also been awarded the fellowship. The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing […]

Professor Abigail Doyle, the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, has been named to the Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire list for her contributions in organic chemistry and computational chemistry. From Cell Press (by Cell Press communications team): 50 Scientists that Inspire Spotlighting researchers who drive innovation As part of the celebrations for our 50th anniversary, […]