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 authors are Eisenberg group members molecular biology graduate student Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang and UCLA postdoctoral fellow Dr. Qin Cao. UCLA co-authors are bioinformatics researcher […]

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 A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Prof. Narang will transition NarangLab, her interdisciplinary group founded at Harvard, to UCLA in […]

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 wrestled with quantum theory for more than a century now, applying it to explore and help solve the profound mysteries of Albert Einstein’s theory of […]

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 to the field.  Professor David Goodsell is an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at the Scripps Research Institute and […]

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 graduate students per year are chosen by the College Deans to receive this prestigious award which recognizes “outstanding graduate students for exemplary academic achievement, research, […]

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 awarded annually to leading biophysicists worldwide, was established by arts and sciences philanthropists Dr. Raymond R. Sackler and Mrs. Beverly Sackler to encourage dedication to […]

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 of being part of the next generation of research leaders. The Goldwater Scholars were chosen on the basis of academic merit from a pool of […]

UCLA’s chemistry and biochemistry graduate degree programs are among the best in the nation, according to US News & World Report’s Best Graduate School rankings.  The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry’s graduate program ranked No. 17 in the country. The organic program landed in the top 10, ranking No. 9, and the department’s other […]