News
11/21/2025
Distinguished Professor Guy Bertrand Elected Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
CAS announced the 2025 class of 73 new academicians and 27 foreign members, recognizing leading scientists from around the world.
10/23/2025
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Ed Dennis Receives 2025 Revelle Medal
The Revelle Medal is the highest honor awarded by the university. It is awarded for exceptional contributions to research, teaching, service and leadership.
10/20/2025
Assistant Professor Haiwang Yong Receives 2025 DOE Office of Science ECRP Award
The 2025 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program supports the research of outstanding scientists early in their careers. The program will fund more than 80 early-career researchers for five years at U.S. academic institutions, DOE national laboratories, and Office of Science user facilities. Prof. Yong’s funded project aims to investigate femtosecond structural dynamics of solvent–solute interactions using ultrafast X-ray and electron diffraction.
09/22/2025
Professor Joel Yuen-Zhou Receives Joint NSF/UKRI Grant
The U.S. National Science Foundation and United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) are jointly funding eight research teams to investigate quantum information phenomena in chemical reactions and systems. Each team is comprised of U.S. and U.K. researchers who will collaboratively explore the role of quantum effects in chemistry. In total, NSF is contributing $4.7 million and UKRI’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is contributing £4.2 million.
09/15/2025
Professor Stacey Brydges Named Recipient of the Women in Chemistry Trailblazer Award
Awarded by the Women Chemists Committee of the San Diego Local Section of the American Chemical Society. This honor recognizes outstanding contributions by women chemists in the San Diego area and celebrates leadership that advances and inspires women across chemistry and related fields.
09/02/2025
Professor Alexis Komor Named Young Innovator Awardee by Advanced Science
Advanced Science received 472 applications from competitive and excellent candidates, after 3 rounds of assessment by in-house editors and external judges, Professor Komor was selected as one of the awardees.
08/21/2025
Professor Joshua Figueroa Receives 2026 F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
This prestigious American Chemical Society National Awazrd recognizes his groundbreaking contributions to organometallic chemistry.
08/21/2025
Professor Akif Tezcan Receives 2026 Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry
This prestigious American Chemical Society National Award recognizes his pioneering research at the interface of chemistry and biology.
08/20/2025
Professor Itay Budin Receives Günter Blobel Early Career Award
This award is given by the American Society for Cell Biology. This prestigious award is given to an "outstanding early career life scientist who has served as an independent investigator for no more than seven years at the time of nomination and who has made significant contributions to and impact on the field of cell biology and the life sciences."
08/18/2025
Professor Julia Stauber Receives Prestigious NIH MIRA Award
Stauber is awarded for her project “Precision, Functional Glyconanoassemblies through Supramolecular Design”.
07/31/2025
Professor Fleur Ferguson Named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
For 40 years, Pew has supported young, talented researchers as they take creative approaches to solving big scientific questions. Being recognized by this award is highly competitive, as this year’s 22 scholars were chosen from 209 applicants nominated by leading academic institutions and researchers throughout the United States.
07/17/2025
Professor Alexis Komor Receives 2026 Eli Lily Award in Biological Chemistry
The award from the American Chemical Society Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology is "being bestowed on Professor Komor because of her substantial and significant contributions to the genome editing and nucleic acid chemistry fields. She developed an innovative and robust solution to the product selectivity problem facing the genome editing field and thereby expanded the scope, efficiency, precision, and therapeutic relevance of genome editing for the largest class of disease-associated genetic variants: point mutations.”
07/09/2025
Professor Yuen-Zhou Awarded 2025 Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
Joel has been recognized for his work on polariton chemistry.
06/25/2025
Emile DeLuca (Kubiak Group) Receives Link Foundation Fellowship
Link Foundation Fellowships recognize the top graduate students in the US working in energy related research, with only four fellowships being awarded per year. The recipient receives $70,000 in support.
06/25/2025
Distinguished Professor Seth Cohen Awarded Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication
Seth is awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and the functionalisation of metal–organic frameworks, and for excellence in communication.
05/30/2025
Slade and Prather Lab Featured in Science Advances
Led by former Slade Lab PhD student, Dr. Adam Cooper, titled "Identifying wastewater chemicals in coastal aerosols". The study has garnered significant attention from the media and public officials, including the mayor of Imperial Beach and Senator Cory Booker, with articles published in The Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, UC San Diego Today, and more.
04/14/2025
Distinguished Professor Seth Cohen Receives 2024 Hillebrand Prize
Professor Cohen is the recipient of the 2024 Hillebrand Prize for accomplishments in the field of materials chemistry, particularly seminal advancements of PSM and polymer composites.
01/08/2025
Tezcan and Herzik Groups Featured in Nature
"There are only two ways of fixing nitrogen, one industrial and one biological. To better understand a key component of the biological process, University of California San Diego Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Akif Tezcan and Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Mark Herzik took a multi-pronged approach. Their work appears in Nature."
01/06/2025
Burkart Lab Featured in Nature
"In recent years, the lab of UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Michael Burkart has developed crosslinking tools to trap the enzyme at specific steps, freezing them in place."