Beckman Laser Institute receives Air Force funding for wounded warriors project

Renewed grant of $6.8 million to aid in development of optics-based trauma treatments

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awards UCI’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute $3 million for retinal degeneration research

The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, which is part of UC Irvine Health, has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for fellowships and instruments that advance research to prevent blindness caused by such diseases as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.

Beckman Laser Institute medical director honored for federal offender tattoo removal program

Dr. J. Stuart Nelson and the Beckman Laser Institute received honors from the U.S. Probation Service in Orange County and federal district Judge David O. Carter for an innovative tattoo removal program that helps men and women integrate into society after completing federal prison terms.

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UCI Podcast: Orange County high school students delve into cardiovascular research in biomedical engineering laboratory

For NSF-funded project, participants learn about organ segmentation, 3D printing, lasers and artificial intelligence

Steven Gong with the White House in the background.

Writing for FLOTUS

UCI student Steven Gong turned lessons from the ‘Writing for POTUS’ course into a White House internship

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UCI School of Biological Sciences to host lecture on Alzheimer’s

Five experts will discuss past, present and future of the disease

Remembering Michael Berns

Inspired by a ruby beam of light, the Beckman Laser Institute co-founder changed science, medicine – and UCI

National Academy of Sciences names two UCI faculty members as fellows

Mathematician Svetlana Jitomirskaya, vision researcher Krzysztof Palczewski honored

Krzysztof “Kris” Palczewski

Vision visionary

UCI’s acclaimed Donald Bren Professor of Ophthalmology, Kris Palczewski, is blazing a trail of innovative research

UCI experts available to discuss invasion of Ukraine

From sociology to cybersecurity, topics of expertise range on conflict