Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences, is the recipient of the 2023 Oesper Award presented by the University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Chemistry and the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS). This prestigious award recognizes “outstanding chemists for a lifetime of significant accomplishments in the field of chemistry […]

Chemical biology graduate student AJ Addae (Paul S. Weiss group) wins second place in the 2023 Future 100 Innovators Awards. Each month in 2023 The Future Laboratory analysts chose 10 Innovators disrupting lifestyle categories in 2023 & beyond. On October 20th they announced the finalists, and awarded the top three. Before coming to UCLA, Addae […]

Professor Danielle Schmitt and collaborator Professor Tara TeSlaa (UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology) have been awarded $250,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to investigate why diets deficient in choline and methionine can cause liver damage. Schmitt joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in July 2022.  Her group employs an interdisciplinary approach […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny and Dr. James Tilden are part of a UCLA Dentistry–led team to receive a $5 million NIH HEAL initiative federal grant to develop an effective, non-addictive synthetic cannabinoids to help patients manage oral cancer pain. A synthetic chemist, Spokoyny is the Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. He joined […]

We are sad to report that alumnus and long-time supporter Dr. David C. Remy (B.S. ’51, M.S. ’52) passed away at the age of 94 on September 28, 2023. Dr. Remy received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1951, and his masters degree in chemistry in 1952. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at […]

Adjunct professor of chemistry, longtime fire fighter, and UCLA alumnus Derek Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’22 Chemistry, Alexandrova group) is featured in UC Newsroom article about UC-backed research helping with the climate crisis in California. As a graduate student in Professor Anastassia Alexandrova’s group, Urwin’s research focused improving firefighter health and safety, […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert is the Center Director of the new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA, which aims to make sodium ion batteries a marketable commodity.  The UCLA STORE Center will receive $4.5 million over the next three years from the Department of Energy’s Energy Earthshots (EERC) program, a major new […]

UCLA’s newest innovative organic chemist Professor Soumitra Athavale presented the 2023 John D. and Edith M. Roberts Lecture at UCLA on October 10.   Prior to joining the UCLA faculty as an assistant professor in July 2023, Athavale was a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Frances Arnold at the California Institute of Technology.  Athavale received his B.S. […]