June 22, 2015
Chemists and biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in designing and synthesizing an artificial cell membrane capable of sustaining continual growth, just like a living cell.
February 1, 2012
…Gianneschi Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Award - Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Alireza Salehi Golsefidy Assistant Professor of Mathematics Award - Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Juan C. Lasheras Stanford and Beverly Penner Professor of Applied Sciences Award - Elected to National Academy of Engineering Roger P. Levy Assistant Professor…
May 2, 2019
…from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Music and Electrical and Computer Engineering are among the 168 scholars, artists and writers chosen for fellowships in the U.S. and Canada by the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Their prior achievements and exceptional promise in their respective fields…
April 1, 2012
…Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Chemistry and Biochemistry Award - Foreign Members of the Royal Society Fellow Karl Y. Hostetler Professor of Medicine Award - Gertrude Elion Memorial Lecture Award by the International Society for Antiviral Research Herbert Levine Professor of Physics Award - American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow…
November 16, 2017
…is known for its bold approach. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Kim Prather exemplifies this reputation as one of the world’s 10 top “Public Defenders” by the Analytical Scientist, a print and digital magazine featuring professionals in the fields of analytical science.
November 21, 2017
…in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and in the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology have “got mail”—of the cellular sort. They know that cells have elaborate “addressing” functions that “send” proteins to the correct compartment, but they are now learning how cells “’write” the addresses and then “read”…
May 28, 2024
Nigel Goldenfeld, a Chancellor’s distinguished professor of physics at UC San Diego, and Mark H. Thiemens, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.
October 9, 2014
Using X-rays and neutron beams, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, University of Utah and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have teased out new information about Protein Kinase A (PKA), a ubiquitous master switch that helps regulate fundamental cellular functions like energy consumption…
February 28, 2019
…to sustainability, learns some chemistry while gardening on campus Chard. Photos by Michelle Fredricks/UC San Diego Physical Sciences Angela Berti casts her eyes to the stars and her hands in the dirt at UC San Diego. It turns out the fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics, who focuses on how galaxies…
September 22, 2022
A renowned atmospheric scientist at the University of California San Diego recently brought an innovative gift and action-oriented message to our nation’s capital. Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, presented a Corsi-Rosenthal Box, a unique invention developed by a multi
