The summer seminar series, hosted by the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA), features a career coach guest speaker and five alumni career talks.  Starting Friday, July 23, 2021, the Biochemistry […]

This summer we welcome our newest Teacher-Scholar Huiling Shao and we bid farewell to former Teacher-Scholars Marlius Castillo and Anish Nag. Our Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral scholars to experience research […]

Alumna Dr. Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17 Andrews/P. Weiss Groups), a senior scientist at ETH Zürich, is named one of MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35. Nakatsuka is […]

Congratulations to Professor Jose Rodriguez on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2021. A true Bruin, Professor Jose Rodriguez received his B.S. in BioPhysics and his Ph.D. in […]

Thanks to our generous donors, 21 undergraduate students will conduct research in our faculty labs this year as summer research fellows. The summer research experience can be one of the […]

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Professor Abigail Doyle, who joins the department as the Saul Winstein Chair of Organic Chemistry. Prof. Doyle joined the department as a Full […]

Academic Senate Awards were garnered by Alex Spokoyny (Senate Teaching award), PhD students Samantha Mensah (DEI award) and Cheylene Tanimoto (TA award). Each year UCLA’s Academic Senate recognizes Senate and non-Senate […]

Graduate student Salvador Bernardino (Harran lab) is one of 12 chemists from around the nation selected for the inaugural Merck Chemists of Color Award. This award recognizes underrepresented chemistry Ph.D. […]