Professor Sri Kosuri and Octant, the startup biotechnology company he co-founded, are featured on the California NanoSystems Institute website. Kosuri is Chief Executive Officer of the UCLA-founded startup company Octant, known for its contribution of SwabSeq sequencing technology to the covid testing vending machines on the UCLA campus. He is currently on leave from UCLA to […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. As part of the Technical and Environmental Sciences class, Kaner will contribute his research and expertise on conducting polymers, separation membranes, superhard materials, new forms of carbon and energy storage devices. The Academy is a non-governmental, European association committed to promoting scientific and […]

Professor Heather Maynard has been awarded the Macrogroup UK Medal for Outstanding Achievement in recognition of her accomplishments in the field of polymer science.   This medal is awarded biennially to a scientist, from any country, who is recognized internationally for his/her continued, outstanding achievements in the field of polymer science. The Pure and Applied Macromolecular […]

Exciting collaborative effort from the Duan and Caram labs unlocked the secrets approaching the fundamental performance limit of 2D semiconductor diodes for the first time, providing critical design principles for electronic devices.   Electronic devices such as solar cells for accessible and renewable energy production, photodetectors in cameras and light emitting diodes in screens and indoor […]

Alumna Corrie Kuniyoshi (PhD ‘05, Foote) named Manager of the ACS Student Experiences Team and will oversee the ACS Scholars and ACS Project SEED programs. The ACS Scholars Program awards renewable scholarships to undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups in the chemical sciences, majoring in chemistry-related disciplines, and intending to pursue chemistry-related careers. The ACS […]

Professor Richard Kaner is elected as a 2021 NAI Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. According to the NAI announcement, this professional distinction is bestowed upon academic inventors who have “demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made […]

Houk group alums Katherine (Kat) Bay and Hung Pham team up to allow UCLA students to run computations remotely as part of Chem 30A and Chem 30B.  A member of the Education Team at Schrödinger, Dr. Katherine Bay collaborated with Dr. Hung Pham and the undergraduate students in his Chem 30A (Organic Chemistry I: Structure […]

A new approach to general C(sp3)–H functionalization was recently developed in the group of Professor Abigail Doyle at UCLA. The paper detailing this discovery, titled “A general strategy for C(sp3)–H functionalization with nucleophiles using methyl radical as a hydrogen atom abstractor” was published on November 29th in Nature Communications. Doyle is the Saul Winstein Chair of […]