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 […]

We are delighted to announce that Professor Narang received The American Physical Society’s 2023 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award. The Maria Goeppert Mayer Award recognizes and enhances outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in the early years of her career, and provides opportunities for her to present these achievements to others through public lectures in the […]

Professor Prineha Narang recently received The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator’s Program Award (ONR YIP) for her work on transport in materials. Established in 1985, the ONR YIP is one of the nation’s oldest and most selective basic-research, early-career awards in science and technology. Its purpose is to fund academic researchers whose scientific pursuits […]

Biscuits, in TEA-ory is a monthly event conceived by graduate students in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry with support from Professor Anastassia Alexandrova, the faculty advisor for the theory and computation research track. The goal is to provide an informal space for theory graduate students and postdocs to meet, exchange ideas, or even […]

Professor Paul S. Weiss is co-leader on a collaborative research project with the Savannah River National Lab (SRNL), which recently received a $3 million DOE grant to further fundamental research capable of enabling new pathways for hydrogen storage and production technologies. The award is part of DOE’s recent announcement of awarding $540 million for university- […]

The department welcomes talented metabolic biochemist Professor Danielle L. Schmitt, who joins the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Professor of biochemistry. Professor Danielle Schmitt joined our biochemistry faculty in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor. An Ohio native, Schmitt obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biochemistry from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. There […]

Professor Neil Garg and postdoc alumnus Dr. Eva Darzi, now CEO of ElecraTect, Inc., are heading a team of researchers who are testing a “cannabinoid fuel cell” that provides a key foundation for one day developing a marijuana breath analyzer. Garg is UCLA’s Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and department Chair. Darzi […]

Inspired by a microscopic animal’s ability to survive and aided by UCLA’s Innovation Fund, Professor Heather Maynard is leading a team of researchers to invent a polymer with the potential to extend the shelf life and reach of medications. A worldwide leader in the area of protein-polymer conjugates, which are important therapeutics for a variety […]