Professor Prineha Narang is part of a team of UCLA researchers that has received a one-year, $1 million grant as part of a new National Science Foundation program aimed at […]

Professor Keriann Backus has won the annual International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist Award. Backus will deliver her award lecture, titled “Defining the functional cysteinome with multidimensional chemoproteomics,” […]

Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and Senior Dean of the UCLA College, has been awarded the 2025 ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic […]

Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor, Neil Garg, has been awarded the 2025 David A. Evans Award for the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis. Garg is the inaugural recipient of […]

Over 150 faculty, students, researchers, and staff attended the department’s Ice Cream Social on Friday, August 9, in the Court of Sciences outside Young Hall. The Paradise Fine Cookies and […]

Biochemistry graduate student Alexandra Turmon (Backus group) has been awarded a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (NIH F31). The NIH F31 award, formally known as the […]

Professor William Gelbart is featured in a UCLA Daily Bruin article about his role as the instructor of the UCLA Prison Education Program course, Chemistry 19.1: “Viruses, Vaccines, and Pandemics,” […]

Professor Danielle Schmitt, an assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of 22 UCLA junior faculty members selected to receive the prestigious UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows award. The UCLA Hellman […]