UC Santa Cruz - Chemistry Department

State program funds lung cancer research

Biomedical researchers at UC Santa Cruz have won major funding to investigate lung cancer

UCSC Magazine Preventing Plastic's Perils

$1.5 million awarded for powerful new instrument

Will provide state-of-the-art platform for performing DEER (double electron-electron resonance)

UC Santa Cruz establishes a Bay Area facility in electron paramagnetic resonance with a $1.5-million grant from NIH's High-End Instrumentation program

New catalyst is a step toward clean fuel

UCSC grad student Yi Peng, first author of a paper on a novel catalyst for hydrogen production, also designed the cover image for the Jan. 10 issue of the journal "ChemSusChem."

Outstanding Investigator Award

Sgourakis Lab receives $1.9M/5 year NIH Outstanding Investigator Award to study Tcell signaling for immunotherapy

Nanotechnology

Materials Science and Engineering Initiative focuses on sustainability

Meet the Researchers

UC Santa Cruz may not have a medical school, but its scientists are tackling some of the most challenging problems in cancer genomics, drug discovery, and basic cancer biology