UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Emily Carter has been named the inaugural senior strategic advisor for sustainability science at the DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In his announcement, Chancellor Gene Block said that Carter, also a member of the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, expressed to him an urgency to refocus her expertise […]

Alumna Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17 Andrews/P Weiss Groups), a senior scientist at ETH Zürich, is profiled on the university’s website.  Nakatsuka, currently a senior scientist at ETH Zürich in the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics led by Professor Janos Vörös, received a B.S. in chemistry with a bioengineering focus from Fordham University in 2012 and […]

Professor Abigail Doyle and PhD students Samuel Newman-Stonebraker and Julia Borowski are part of a team to introduce a workflow that allows scientists to predict phosphine ligand reactivity on the basis of one structural parameter.  The team’s paper, “Univariate classification of phosphine ligation state and reactivity in cross-coupling catalysis”, was recently published in the prestigious […]

The department is seeking outstanding candidates for tenure-track or tenured faculty positions at the level of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor.  The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is conducting three faculty searches in the fields of biochemistry (open rank), chemistry (open rank), and medicinal chemistry (endowed chair position; Associate & Full Professors only). We […]

At a small reception on September 24, 2021, we welcomed Professor Abigail Doyle to UCLA and celebrated her appointment as the 4th holder of the Winstein Chair. Doyle joined the UCLA faculty in July 2021 as the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry. Prior to that she was a faculty member in the Department of […]

UCLA SMACS receives an outstanding performance rating from the ACS, as well as a 2020-21 Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award. The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) at UCLA received the award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute (GCI), which is given to student groups which promote green chemistry on […]

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 […]