Lisa Boatner, a fifth-year graduate student in the Backus/Houk research groups, is one of two students to win the poster competition at the Drug Discovery Chemistry Conference in San Diego on April 1-4, 2024. The winners were chosen by a panel of industry judges based on the visual clarity of their poster, the clarity and […]

The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) has awarded Assistant Professor Danielle Schmitt a $77,800 Strategic Plan Aligned Project Seed Grant for her project entitled “iGlo: A Novel Molecular Biosensor for Imaging Glutamine Dynamics Across Scales Background and Significance”. Schmitt’s project aims to develop iGlo, a novel molecular biosensor for imaging glutamine dynamics across different […]

Research led by Professor Richard Kaner and graduate student Yuto Katsuyama, published in Small, was among the journal’s top downloaded papers during its first 12 months of publication. Small is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal focused on the science and engineering of small-scale structures and materials, covering nanotechnology, microtechnology, and miniaturization. According to the publishers, their […]

Professor Prineha Narang and collaborator Sergio Carbajo, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and of physics and astronomy, were recently featured on Voice of America (VOA) news, discussing their research developing highly-sensitive sensors to detect environmental changes. Narang joined the UCLA faculty in July 2022 leading an interdisciplinary group with research spanning chemistry, physics, […]

Third-year chemistry graduate student Shelby Vexler (biophysics track, Chen group) won third place at the UCLA Graduate Division Grad Slam competition on April 2, 2024. Vexler’s 3-minute prize-winning talk was titled “From Foe to Friend: Viruses that Fight Bacteria”.  Vexler conducts research in Professor Irene Chen’s group. She received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry-molecular biology […]

Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) and Honorable Mentions. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at […]

A UCLA team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, has invented a transparent device that offers nonlinear operation under low-power ambient light, and combined it with a smartphone camera for glare reduction — an example of numerous applications this technology could enable. From UCLA Newsroom (by Wayne Lewis): Advance in light-based computing shows capabilities for future […]

UCLA alumnus Dr. Valter Longo (Ph.D. ’97, Biochemistry, Valentine), a prominent researcher in the field of aging, longevity, and nutrition, was recently featured in an extensive article in the New York Times. The article, titled “To Live Past 100, Mangia a Lot Less: Italian Expert’s Ideas on Aging”, was featured in the March 25, 2024, […]