14 chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2023-2024 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Additionally, two students who work within chemistry and biochemistry labs from the BBSB and MSE programs have also been awarded the fellowship. The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and […]

Professors Matthew Nava and Danielle Schmitt have been selected to receive a UCLA Faculty Career Development Awards. Nava and Schmitt will both receive $15,000, which will assist them as they advance an on-going research project, creative activity, or as they embark on a new project, during the 2023-24 academic year. The UCLA Equity, Diversity, and […]

Congratulations to Professor Justin Caram on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2023. A physical chemist, Caram joined the chemistry faculty in July 2017 as an assistant professor. His group develops and studies novel photophysical materials using photon-resolved spectroscopic methods. Caram holds an A.B. degree in chemistry from Harvard University, where […]

First-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry to represent the ACS at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, UAE.  The COP is an international event organized under the […]

Alumnus Dr. Chuanzhen Zhao (M.S. ’17 chemistry, Ph.D. ’20 materials chemistry P. Weiss and A. Andrews groups) is the recipient of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nanotechnology Council Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Nanotechnology “for developing and applying nanoscale tools critical to chemical sensing for the BRAIN Initiative, with further applications […]

The 2023 Summer Seminar Series, organized by the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA), showcases talks by alumni, faculty, and current graduate students. Join us for the seminars every Friday afternoon from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Dongwon Yoo Seminar & Conference Hall – Young Hall 4222. Please note that there will be no seminar […]

Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate students Andrew Goring (Clubb/Loo groups) and Alexander Stevens (Zhou group) have been awarded prestigious Whitcome Pre-doctoral Fellowships in Molecular Biology for 2023-24. The fellowship will provide them support in the form of tuition/fees, a monthly stipend and travel funds. About Andrew Goring Andrew Goring (pictured above left) received […]

Professor Keriann Backus has been named a recipient of the 2023 Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from the Ono Pharma Foundation to support her research on chemoproteogenomic approaches to guide immunomodulatory therapeutics. Backus will garner $900,000, plus funding for indirect research costs, for a total grant exceeding $1 million. The highly competitive awards program is designed […]