Ph.D. alums Dr. Elias Picazo and Dr. Marco Messina are chosen for the ASBMB’s inaugural 2021 cohort for the MOSAIC program. In August 2020, The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) received a cooperative agreement with the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop and execute a program […]

Distinguished Research Professor Kendall Houk receives the 2021 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, one of the most important awards given by the ACS. The Roger Adams (RA) Award Ceremony video can be viewed here. The biannual award recognizes outstanding contributions to research in organic chemistry. Houk was honored at the American Chemical Society (ACS) […]

Professor Abby Doyle is one of seven award recipients of the Dreyfus Foundation 2021 program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering. The Dreyfus program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, initiated in 2020, provides funding for innovative projects in any area of Machine Learning (ML) consistent with the Foundation’s […]

Researchers from UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) team up to bring cutting-edge STEM research to under-represented students. Professor Heather Maynard, Co-director of the BioPACIFIC MIP, and Professor Jose Rodriquez, both UCLA chemistry & biochemistry faculty members, are senior investigators on the National Science Foundation $3.8 million grant that will help advance […]

Six Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members are selected to receive CNSI Noble Family Innovation Fund grants for their nanoscience research projects. The Noble Family Innovation Fund, established with a $10 million philanthropic commitment to the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, supports basic and translational research involving interactions on the nanoscale – measured in billionths of […]

Former undergraduate researcher Indya Weathers ’19 (Biochemistry, Chanfreau group) is featured on Undergraduate Research Center–Sciences’ Student Spotlight.    Weathers was recognized by the UCLA/URC-Sciences for her first author publication in STAR Protocols titled “Protocol for High-Resolution Mapping of Splicing Products and Isoforms by RT-PCR Using Fluorescently Labeled Primers”, which is based on her undergraduate research […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras  for 2021-26. IIT Madras Distinguished Professorships are awarded to pre-eminent authorities in their fields and who are nationally or internationally recognized for the importance of their achievements. Weiss is the first UCLA faculty member to receive the honor. […]

Olympic gold medalist and UCLA volleyball legend Karch Kiraly leads the USA Women’s Volleyball team to its first-ever Olympic gold medal. The U.S. Women made history on Sunday, August 8, 2021, sweeping longtime rival Brazil for their first Olympic gold medal, 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-14) at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Charles Frederick “Karch” Kiraly began […]