Professor Richard Kaner leads team of researchers to develop novel surface treatment that stops microbes from adhering to medical devices like catheters and stents.  From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert):  Scientists devise method to prevent deadly hospital infections without antibiotics Novel surface treatment developed at UCLA stops microbes from adhering to medical devices like catheters […]

Professor Justin Caram is among 18 honorees nationwide to receive a 2022 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Since joining the UCLA faculty in 2017, physical chemist Professor Justin Caram has developed a world-class research program focused on developing new spectroscopies and materials with a focus on addressing fundamental questions in chemical photophysics.  From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart […]

We are sad to report that synthetic chemist Professor David Evans, co-creator of ChemDraw, former UCLA faculty member, and 2006 Seaborg Medalist, passed away at the age of 81 on April 29.    Harvard professor emeritus David A. Evans is remembered by his colleagues as an outstanding scientist and a great teacher and mentor.    “Dave Evans […]

UCLA team, led by Professor Irene Chen, develops nanoparticle-phage therapy, a promising alternative treatment for antibiotic-resistant infections.   Professor Irene Chen holds a joint appointment in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Her group studies life-like biochemical systems to understand their fundamental properties and address emerging challenges in biotechnology […]

A team led by Professor Shimon Weiss and former PhD student Arkaprabha Basu has developed an image processing technique, SPOCC, which quantifies cytoskeletal properties using microscopic images.  Statistical Parametrization of Cell Cytoskeleton (SPOCC) is an image processing method developed by Professor Shimon Weiss’ group at UCLA.  Weiss holds UCLA’s Dean M. Willard Chair in Chemistry […]

Ph.D. student Samantha Theresa Mensah (Andrews/P Weiss groups) has been awarded a Boren Fellowship to conduct research and study Twi in Ghana.   National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an international component to their graduate education. A fifth-year UCLA chemistry graduate student in the groups […]

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) working in the groups of Professors Bradley Pentelute and Stephen Buchwald, was an undergraduate researcher in Professor Alex Spokoyny’s group.    While at UCLA, Saebi received […]

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 […]