College of Chemistry

Karthik Shekhar has been named a 2023 McKnight Scholar

June 14, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Illustration of neural network

Illustration of neural network. Courtesy of the McKnight Endowment Fund.

The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has announced the selection of ten neuroscientists to receive the 2023 McKnight Scholar Award. Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UC Berkeley,...

With drop in LA’s vehicular aerosol pollution, plants emerge as major source

March 23, 2021
By Robert Sanders | UC Berkeley media relations

Mexican palms

Mexican fan palms, native to the deserts of northwestern Mexico, are a widely-planted ornamental throughout the Los Angeles basin and are contributing substantially to the organic aerosol pollution in the area, according to a UC Berkeley study. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

California’s restrictions on vehicle emissions have been so effective that in at least one urban area...

Catalyst Magazine

Current Issue Spring/Summer 2023, V 18.1

College of Chemistry breaks ground on new state-of-the-art building – Heathcock Hall

May 6, 2024
College of Chemistry Press Release
The College of Chemistry celebrated the groundbreaking of its new research and teaching facility, Heathcock Hall, on Thursday, May 2.

Targeting tryptophan: New technique opens door to novel drug synthesis

March 28, 2024
Bob Sanders | UC Berkeley
Chemists have devised a novel method to selectively tag tryptophan residues within proteins, potentially leading to the development of new types of drugs and engineered proteins.

Markita Landry receives 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award

July 18, 2018
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Markita Landry has been awarded a prestigious two-year Department Of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award for her project Brain Chemical Signaling: A New Input Signal for Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Molecular Sciences Software Institute launches open-source data sharing project for COVID-19

May 26, 2020
Virginia Tech Press release
The Molecular Sciences Software Institute has launched an open-source website that will allow biomolecular scientists from around the world to share computer-aided drug-testing simulations targeting the protein at the center of COVID-19.

Teresa Head-Gordon receives COVID-19 research funding

June 25, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Teresa Head-Gordon, Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry, Bioengineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, joins three colleagues from Berkeley Engineering who have received funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute for COVID-19 projects.

New AI Speeds Discovery in Synthetic Biology

October 8, 2020
Cami Rosso | Psychology Today
Synthetic biology, like artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning, is a relatively modern field that applies emerging technologies to achieve innovation. Now scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) in California have merged the two fields by creating a machine learning algorithm for synthetic biology called ART (Automated Recommendation Tool),

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