Professor Anastassia Alexandrova wins supercomputer access for 2024 from the DOE Office of Science through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.  Only 75 of these grants are awarded globally across all disciplines of computational science, and the competition is open to participants worldwide. This marks the fourth time that […]

Professor David Christianson (University of Pennsylvania), a distinguished figure in the field of biological chemistry, visited UCLA on November 16, 2023, to give the Fall 2023 Distinguished Lecture. Select photos from the event can be viewed below and a photo gallery can be viewed here. Christianson is the Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Chemistry […]

Professor Ohyun Kwon and her research group have developed a groundbreaking method which utilizes oxygen and copper to efficiently break carbon-carbon bonds in hydrocarbons and convert them into valuable amine molecules, potentially revolutionizing the production of pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals. The lead author of the team’s recently published Science paper is former postdoctoral researcher Dr. […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, and Richard Kaner have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2023 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Since 2002, Clarivate has released an annual Web of Science list of researchers who have demonstrated compelling and broad influence across various disciplines. Comprising […]

A team of researchers, led by Professor James Gimzewski and alumnus Dr. Adam Stieg (Ph.D. ’07 Gimzewski), has created an experimental computing system physically modeled after the biological brain, which “learned” to identify handwritten numbers with high accuracy. The research was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications. A distinguished professor of chemistry and […]

The UCLA graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) held a Trivia Night and Costume Contest on October 27, 2023. The UCLA Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) is a student-run organization whose goal is to “promote camaraderie between students, share knowledge, and offer opportunities to better prepare ourselves for future careers.” gBSA organizes social events, as well as multiple […]

Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate students Alexandra Turmon (Backus lab) and Cindy Wang (S. Clarke and C. Clarke labs) have been selected as 2023-2024 Fowler Fellows. Each Fellow presented a talk at the Audree V. Fowler Fellowships in Protein Science Special Seminar on November 8, 2023. Dr. Audree Fowler A strong supporter of […]

Professor Paul S. Weiss and current and former members of his group are part of a UCLA research team that has developed a first-of-its-kind thermal transistor capable of rapidly and precisely switching heat on and off. Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tianhan Liu and alumni Drs. Erin Avery (Ph.D. ’21, chemistry) and Dominic Goroonzy (Ph.D. ’19, chemistry) […]