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 slowing the release into the body, which has the potential to reduce abuse of the drug. The team’s goal is to provide a drug for […]

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 Fellows. (Pictured above with Dr. Audree Fowler.) Each Fellow presented a talk at the Audree V. Fowler Fellowships in Protein Science Special Seminar on Tuesday, […]

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 than three decades, García-Garibay has served as dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at UCLA since July 1, 2016. Prior to that he served […]

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 Professor William A. Goddard III’s group at the California Institute of Technology, experimentally determined the interfacial pKa of hydronium ions (H3O+) on platinum surface equals […]

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 the M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry and hear lectures by several prominent chemists. The keynote speakers honored at the symposium were […]

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 new position, Howe will leverage her expertise in chemistry education research to provide insight for division leadership into reasons why Black and Latinx students leave […]

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 Yourself” is a trivia show with a live audience and celebrity contestants hosted by J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong. The heart of the […]

Professor Michael Jung, a leader in the field of synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, has been appointed as the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery. A distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Jung designs molecules in his laboratory that do not exist in nature.  He developed two FDA approved drugs, Xtandi […]