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Our amazing undergrad Lauren is absolutely crushing it! She was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and has committed to Caltech for her PhD studies. Well done, Lauren, we can't wait to see the great things you accomplish! @uclachem @CaltechCCE @NSF #NSFGRFP

Exciting Garg lab news: first year graduate students Breanna, Abby, and Kasey were awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Well done to all three of you on this accomplishment! #NSFGRFP @uclachem @NSF @UCLA

Congratulations to second year graduate student Aimee, who gave an exciting departmental seminar on the use of strain release methodologies for the synthesis of bridged azabicycles. Awesome work, Aimee!

A decade-long passion project led by John Billingsley and made possible by uninterrupted collaboration with the great team at @GargLab. Propellane alkaloid discovery, biosynthesis and total synthesis. @UclaCBE @uclachem @eXoZymes pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

We're excited to share our latest total synthesis research, in collaboration with @yitang_ucla! The synthesis features a key interrupted Fischer indolization to form the azapropellane core. A big congrats to all authors! Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @uclachem @UCLA

The Bruin alumna and new author reflects on her path, from first-gen college student to professorship and her own lab. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/extrao…

Our fourth year graduate students Zach, Allison, and Dani, as well as postdoc Jiaming, will be presenting on Wednesday on strained intermediates!  Hope to see you there! #ACSSpring2026 @uclachem @AmerChemSociety

@GargLab members will be presenting at the upcoming ACS meeting in Atlanta! Neil will be presenting on Tuesday to celebrate our chemical grandpa @brianstoltz70, and there are four talks from group members on Wednesday. We’d love to see you there! #ACSSpring2026 @uclachem

A big congratulations to second year graduate student Noah, who just gave a fantastic departmental seminar on strategies for the stereoselective synthesis of atropisomers. Great job, Noah! @UCLA @uclachem #nottobeturned

"A year after undermining Bredt’s rule," @UCLA scientists including Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Neil Garg (@GargLab), "have made cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations." newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-…

Please join us in welcoming our three new first year graduate students, Kasey, Abby, and Breanna. We can’t wait to see what great things these three accomplish during their time here! @uclachem

In honor of today being the International Day of Women in Science, we want to celebrate the amazing women in the @GargLab ! Cheers to these brilliant women we are so fortunate to work with! #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM @UCLA @uclachem

Congrats to Prof. Soumitra Athavale (@athavale_s) & UCLA alum Prof. Melissa Ramirez (PhD ’21; @GargLab, @houk1000) @UMNews, two of four nationwide recipients of the 2025 ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR) Ignition Grants! bit.ly/49S9fLN

Check out our studies on the generation and stereospecific trappings of 7-membered azacyclic allenes in @J_A_C_S now! Congrats to @GMS_chem, @ben_janda1 and Lauren! Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… @ucla @uclachem #from6to7

UCLA organic chemists can’t quit breaking the rules — and that’s a good thing! newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-…

Our study on Cubene and 1,7-Quadricyclene is now live in @NatureChemistry. We highlight their unusual geometries, bond orders, and synthetic utility to generate complexity. Congrats to Jiaming, Sarah, Christina, Ari, and Dom! nature.com/articles/s4155… @UCLA @UCLAchem @houk1000

🥳Congrats to @GargLab, @houk1000, & @yitang_ucla, recipients of a $2M state grant from the CA Dept of Cannabis Control to advance cannabinoid therapeutics through interdisciplinary research in synthesis, computation, and pharmacology! chemistry.ucla.edu/news/garg-houk…

Happy Holidays from the Garg Lab! @uclachem

We were fortunate to play a small role in this study led the Rao Lab @ucla_pathology. Congrats to all authors, including Georgia, Jacob, and Milauni! Paper: haematologica.org/article/view/1… @uclachem @UCLA @UCLAHealth uclahealth.org/news/release/u…

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah French (@Garg Lab) for being a finalist for the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research! Way to go Sarah! @uclachem @ucla