MIT News features profile of former Spokoyny lab undergraduate researcher Azin Saebi (MS/BS biochemistry and BS neuroscience, ‘17).   Saebi, currently a chemistry graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) […]

Professor David Eisenberg leads UCLA research team to report in the journal Nature that amyloid fibrils found in people with frontotemporal degeneration contain the little-known protein TMEM106B.  The study’s lead […]

The department welcomes renowned theoretical and computational science scholar Professor Prineha Narang, who joins the UCLA faculty as the Howard Reiss Development Chair.    Currently an Assistant Professor at the John […]

Professors Paul S. Weiss and Louis Bouchard are co-investigators on a multi-institutional quantum biology team to receive a three-year $1M award from the prestigious WM Keck Foundation. Physicists have worked and […]

Structural biologist and artist Professor David Goodsell (Ph.D. ‘87 Biochemistry, Dickerson) wins the Protein Society’s 2022 Carl Brändén Award for his exceptional contributions in the areas of education and/or service […]

Graduate student Ashley Shin (Caram group) has been selected to receive the Charles E and Sue K Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award for 2022-23.   Since 1981, only four exceptional UCLA […]

Biophysicist Professor Shimon Weiss has been selected as one of two awardees of the 2022 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics.  The Sackler Prize in Biophysics, which is […]

Third-year chemistry undergraduate researcher Laurie Tan (Caram group) is one of two UCLA students to be named Goldwater Scholars in 2022.  The prestigious national scholarship supports students who show promise […]