UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri was recently interviewed by the founder of ChemTalk, a new non-profit organization that aims to promote chemistry.  In a video interview with ChemTalk founder Dr.  Scott Gietler, Scerri discuss his origins, chemistry, philosophy, his books, Roald Hoffman & Oliver Sacks, some of the elements, history of the periodic […]

BMSB PhD student Carlos Gonzalez-Figueroa (Grace Xiao lab, IBP) is awarded the 2021-22 UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology Hyde Fellowship. The third-year graduate student received the award to carry out his research on “Regulation and function of RNA editing in human health and disease” in the group of his advisor Professor Xinshu (Grace) Xiao in […]

Graduate student Rachel Knapp (Garg group) has been selected as one of the four winners of the 2021 Alfred R Bader Award for Student Innovation.  Knapp was chosen for the award in recognition of her “exemplary work in the field synthetic methodology, especially as applied to a more efficient synthesis of antivirals treating COVID-19”. This […]

We are pleased to honor UCLA biochemist Emeritus Professor Richard Dickerson, a giant in structural biology, who turned 90 on October 8, 2021. To honor Dickerson, UCLA has established a new fund to provide resources for an enriched biochemistry seminar series on campus. This fund, celebrating Dickerson on the occasion of his 90th birthday, will […]

Professor Shimon Weiss wins Biophysical Society’s Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics for trailblazing contributions to the field of single-molecule fluorescence detection biophysics.   Weiss will be honored at the Society’s 66th Annual Meeting in February 2022. The Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics recognizes outstanding researchers for their exceptional contributions in advancing the field of […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been selected to receive the Qian Baojun Fiber Award (Distinguished Achievement) for his “pioneering work of conducting organic fibers especially conducting polyaniline nanofibers.” Kaner received the international award, which includes a $10,000 prize, at the International Conference on Advanced Fibers and Polymer Materials (ICAFPM2021), October 17-20 at Donghua University (Songjiang Campus), […]

Professor Keriann Backus receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.   Backus received the award for her research titled “A Systems-Level Approach to Decipher the Protein Interactome.’’ This work involves the development and application of novel chemistries to determine precisely where and when protein interactions […]

Professor Ken Houk has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory in nanotechnology.   Since 1993, The Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory is awarded for excellence in theory to the researchers whose recent work has most advanced the achievement of Feynman’s goal for nanotechnology: molecular manufacturing, defined as the […]