Clare Dasilva (left, in gold dress) and Gabby Rodriguez (right, in blue sweater) congratulate Betty Tesfaye (center), who will be going to New York University for a residency in pediatrics.

A match made in medicine

Graduating UCI medical students learn at festive ceremony where they will first practice as doctors

Rupert Whitehead, a trombonist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, plays next to Terry Taylor, who had a stroke three years ago and whose right eye was affected by Bell’s palsy after a COVID-19 shot. Taylor, who also has spells of vertigo, wears a shirt that says, “I’m not clumsy. I’m performing random gravity checks.”

Music as medicine

UCI collaborates with London orchestra on stroke rehabilitation program

Man with glasses looking at camera.

School of Medicine receives prestigious grant from Research to Prevent Blindness

Funding will support eye research conducted by the Department of Ophthalmology

UC Irvine health psychologist Julian F. Thayer elected to National Academy of Medicine

Distinction recognizes his contributions to understanding of stress and disease, aging

Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine cites UCI’s Philip Felgner

Vaccine Research & Development Center director noted for contribution to mRNA vaccines

Dr. Federico Vaca

Dr. Federico Vaca to lead Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

UC Irvine physician-scholar is lauded for research on traffic crash injuries, prevention

Brandy Lipton, Associate Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

UC Irvine-led study finds Medicaid telemedicine coverage boosted use, healthcare access

Results could inform state policymakers’ post-pandemic decision-making efforts

Kei Igarashi (center), UCI associate professor of anatomy & neurobiology, is awarded the 19th Japan Academy Medal during a ceremony Feb. 7 in Tokyo as Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko (right) look on. NHK

UC Irvine School of Medicine associate professor awarded 19th Japan Academy Medal

Kei Igarashi is one of six scholars under 45 recognized as outstanding researchers

CIRM awards UCI $2.7 million to create regenerative medicine training program

Brian Cummings, UCI professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and founding member of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a training program that supports first-generation and underserved students pursuing careers in public health and regenerative medicine. […]

UCI assistant professor of medicine receives MERIT grant from National Cancer Institute

Nick Pannunzio, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the UCI School of Medicine, has received a Method to Extend Research in Time Award from the National Cancer Institute. The seven-year grant will bring approximately $410,000 annually to fund his study into a particular acute lymphoblastic leukemia subtype called Philadelphia chromosome-like […]