Professor Louis Bouchard is part of a team of researchers who have identified that iron drives the formation of fatty tissue in the heart and leads to chronic heart failure […]

Professor Heather Maynard is part of a team researchers whose Nobel Fund project is seeking to curb opioid addiction by rendering the drug inactive unless taken orally, as well as […]

Graduate students Cody Gillman (Gonen lab), Declan Evans (Houk lab), Troy Lowe (Backus lab), Ashley Julio (Backus lab), and Alex Stevens (Hong Zhou lab) have been selected as 2022-2023 Fowler […]

Professor Miguel A. García-Garibay has been appointed senior dean of the UCLA College. He will serve a two-year term beginning November 1, 2022. A member of UCLA’s faculty for more […]

A research collaboration between Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professor Yu Huang’s group in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and […]

Current members and alumni of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry gathered at UCLA on September 16, 2022, for the 2022 M. Frederick Hawthorne Symposium, to honor two recipients of […]

Alumna Dr. Morgan Howe (Ph.D. ’19, Garcia-Garibay group) has joined the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry as a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education Research Fellow. In her […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Dr. Eric Scerri was recently featured on an NPR radio trivia show called “Go Fact Yourself” as an expert on the periodic table.  “Go Fact […]