Graduate student Lajoyce Mboning (Bouchard/Pellegrini groups) has been awarded a Genomic Analysis and Interpretation Program (GATP) Fellowship for 2024-25. Mboning is a third-year chemistry and biochemistry, theory and computation graduate student conducting research in the groups of Professor Louis Bouchard and Professor Matteo Pellegrini. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of […]

Professor Stuart Conway, the inaugural holder of UCLA’s Michael and Alice Jung Endowed Chair in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, is the winner of this year’s prestigious UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry for his groundbreaking work on the development of therapeutically relevant bromodomain inhibitors and the development of pro-drugs that are selectively activated […]

Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Jordan Gonzalez (Garg lab), Daniel Seungwook Min (Doyle lab), Madeline Ruos (Doyle lab), and Georgia Scherer (Garg lab) have been named the 2024 Senior Foote Fellows. The Senior Foote Fellowships support our most outstanding third-year graduate students upon completion of their qualifying examination for their Ph.D. degree and the Junior […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert, recipient of the SCALACS Tolman Award for the year 2023, recently presented a virtual seminar titled “Holey Batteries Batman, Can Chemists Really Help Solve Our Energy Problems?”, as part of the Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW).  The video is now available for viewing online here. The Tolman medal is awarded each year […]

The Physical Division of the American Chemical Society has named Professor Justin Caram as the winner of the prestigious 2024 Richard Van Duyne Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry. The award recognizes outstanding contributions in experimental physical chemistry by a young investigator. Caram will accept the award and present an award lecture at the […]

Neuroscientist Professor Anne M. Andrews was recently featured in Wired magazine, discussing her groundbreaking work in developing wearable sensors for personalized medicine and well-being, while also addressing the complexities of brain function and the future of neuroscience. The article discusses Andrews’ work to unlock the brain’s secrets and to develop innovative wearable sensors for personalized […]

Professor Stuart Conway, the inaugural holder of UCLA’s Michael and Alice Jung Endowed Chair of Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, is one of four UCLA researchers to receive a Translational Melanoma Research Alliance Team Science Award to identify small-molecular compounds that will prevent cancer cells from developing resistance to current mutation-targeted therapies and immunotherapies. Prior […]

“CBS Evening News” correspondent Danya Bacchus was on campus recently to interview chemical biology graduate student AJ Addae (Paul S. Weiss group) about her work to create a more inclusive beauty industry through science. The CBS team interviewed Addae at her company SULA LABS in Westwood Village, and on campus in Professor Paul Weiss’ Young […]