The newly installed system supports research instruments requiring liquid helium, a nonrenewable resource that has recently become less commercially available.  Superconducting magnets are critical components of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and some mass spectrometry instruments that are used to determine the structures of molecules, from small drug molecules to large proteins. Without a constant supply […]

Professor Chong Liu and collaborators receive a $55K 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award. Professor Chong Liu and collaborators Professor Andrea Hicks, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison and Professor Haotian Wang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, received the award for their project titled “CO2 Conversion to Bioplastics via Electrochemical-Bio Synthesis”. This […]

Professor Ellen Sletten and her former PhD student Rachael Day are featured in article about the “Photonbooth” they created as an outreach for local schools. A UCLA faculty member since 2015, Professor Ellen Sletten’s group takes a multidisciplinary approach towards the creation of enhanced nanotherapeutics, shortwave infrared diagnostics, and new chemical tools to study living systems. […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, postdocs, grad students, undergrads, and alums helped make Exploring Your Universe on November 7, 2021, a huge success. For the second year, the festival was offered online – giving visitors from all over the world the opportunity to take part in guided, do-it-yourself science experiments while engaging with scientists on a […]

Professor Michael Jung has been awarded the 2022 IUPAC-Richter Prize in recognition of his research, which has afforded new drugs for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. The IUPAC-Richter prize is awarded to an internationally recognized scientist, preferably a medicinal chemist, whose activities or published accounts have made an outstanding contribution to the practice of […]

We are sad to report that alumnus Dale Steichen  (PhD ’80, Foote group) passed away on December 22, 2021, at the age of 67. A longtime researcher and scientist within the cleaning product industry, Dr. Dale Steichen earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the California State College Stanislaus in 1976. He then earned his […]

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 […]