Department Chair Professor Neil Garg wins the 2022 Mukaiyama award in recognition of his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry.  The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ) award recognizes Garg’s […]

Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2021 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Those […]

Dr Carly Daniels (PhD ’14 BMSB, Loo group) discusses her COVID-19 vaccine research at Pfizer in recent UCLA Newsroom Magazine article. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the […]

We are sad to report that alum Willy Dietrich Kollmeyer (PhD ’67 Trueblood group) passed away at the age of 82 on September 9, 2021. Dr. Kollymeyer and his wife […]

Biochemistry alumnus Carlos Galván ‘19 is featured in UCLA Newsroom article celebrating first-generation scientists at UCLA. Galván received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at UCLA in 2019, becoming the first […]

UCLA’s free science festival, Exploring Your Universe, returns in a virtual format on Sunday, Nov 7, from noon to 3 pm. For the second year, the festival will be offered […]

Led by PhD student Amir Nasajpour in Professor Paul Weiss’s lab, the research engineered spiky rose thorn-like nanomaterial that establishes great antibacterial activity to slow herpes simplex virus 1 and […]

We are pleased to announce that UCLA’s new Master of Applied Chemical Sciences (MACS) Program is currently enrolling students for the Fall of 2022. MACS was created in response to […]