Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor in Polymer Science and associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, has been awarded the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. The new fellows are part of the 101st class of 223 awarded scholars, scientists and creative professionals from the U.S. and Canada chosen from a […]

Professor Anne Andrews is featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article discussing how an unexpected career path led her to pioneer wearable technology that measures hormones and brain chemicals, culminating in the founding of FemSync to enable personalized, real-time health monitoring. From UCLA Newsroom (by Wayne Lewis): How a series of ‘left turns’ led to […]

Professor David Eisenberg has been awarded the 2026 Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “for his discoveries of amyloid fibril structures of relevance for the field of amyloid structural biology and neurodegenerative diseases.” Eisenberg, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, is known for his pioneering research […]

A short video featuring Professor Paul Weiss giving a tour of his office for UCLA College’s “UCLA Office Hours” series has received hundreds of thousands of views and likes on social media since its March 9 launch. The one-minute video has, to date, received over 290k views on Facebook, 287k views on Instagram, 9,015 views […]

By Ben Paul, UCLA Division of Physical Sciences A growing culture of entrepreneurship is reshaping how UCLA chemists think about discovery, impact, and their role beyond the lab. When Mike Jung first tried to commercialize his research, his early attempts at translating academic research into drug development didn’t go as planned. Not surprisingly, it’s hard […]

Dr. Jeffrey Stafford ‘84, CEO of 858 Therapeutics and a veteran biotechnology executive and scientist, has been named the recipient of the 2026 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award. Stafford will accept the award and present the commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 13, 2026. Stafford has co-founded […]

Professor Melissa Ramirez (Ph.D. ’21 organic chemistry, Garg and Houk groups), an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is profiled in a recent UCLA Newsroom article. Ramirez co-authored a recently released book titled “Extraordinary Latina Vol V: Reclaiming Courage, Healing, & the Power Within”. From UCLA Newsroom (by Álvaro Castillo): […]

Department Chair Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been selected as a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of his distinguished contributions in main group and organometallic chemistry and academic community engagement and leadership. AAAS is the world’s largest general-scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Spokoyny is […]