UC Santa Cruz - Chemistry Department

Discovery could help guide new cancer drugs

Professor Seth Rubin and Assistant Professor Nik Sgourakis have determined the structure of FoxM1—a kind of "master switch" for cell division—in its inactive or "off" conformation.

Harvesting energy from light

Chemist Alexander Ayzner wins NSF CAREER Award

Clean Energy - environmentally friendly fuel

Novel ruthenium-based catalyst developed by researchers led by chemistry Professor Shaowei Chen has potential applications in sustainable hydrogen production for clean energy, industrial processes

Novel electrocatalyst outperforms platinum in alkaline hydrogen production

Impact on the Research Community

Three Chemistry Faculty Among Highly Cited Researchers in 2018

Better Plastics

UCSC chemists develop safe alternatives to phthalates used in plastics

On the verge of a technological revolution

Theorist Yuan Ping is developing computational methods to guide the design of new materials for quantum computing

Center for High Content Functional Annotation (HiFAN) will be established

Program is designed to develop new tools to push the frontier of natural products with the support of a $2.4M/3 year NIH grant

State program funds lung cancer research

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

Chemistry Research

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May 28, 2019Study reveals structure of a 'master switch' controlling cell division
May 8, 2019Chemist Alexander Ayzner wins NSF CAREER Award
May 7, 2019NIH grant funds research on role of prion proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

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