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. […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is seeking outstanding candidates for tenure–track or tenured faculty positions at the level of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor. Successful applicants at the Assistant level will be expected to develop strong and creative research programs and to contribute to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants at […]

Chemical biology graduate student AJ Addae (Paul S. Weiss group) will be speaking at the United Nations Economic Commissions for Africa’s Forum of the Alliance of Entrepreneurial Universities in Africa, to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 10, 2023. Before coming to UCLA, Addae founded SULA LABS, a research and development laboratory that […]

Professor Danielle Schmitt receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.  The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, disbursed over a five-year period, is from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Program. Established in 2007, the program supports early-career investigators pursuing highly innovative research with the […]

Professor Todd Yeates and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Roger Castells-Graells led a team of biochemists in devising a solution that allows for the immobilization of small protein molecules during imaging, thereby enhancing cryo-EM’s ability to produce clearer images of these molecules. From UCLA Newsroom (by Holly Ober): UCLA-led team develops key improvement to Nobel Prize-winning technology […]