Paul Weiss, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, received the 2019 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Three faculty were elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and one professor was elected to the Association of American Physicians.
A team of UCLA-led researchers has received support from the National Institutes of Health to develop strategies for smoking cessation among high-risk, hospitalized patients.
The award honors emeriti professors for scholarly work or educational service performed, since retirement, in the fields of humanities or social sciences.
Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, was elected for his seminal contributions to causal inference in statistics and contributions to artificial intelligence.
The findings will both help identify women who are at highest risk of developing ovarian cancer and pave the way for identifying new therapies that can target these specific genes.