Estée Lauder endowment will establish epigenetics fellowship at UCI

Award honors late professor-researcher Paolo Sassone-Corsi and his groundbreaking work

Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center to host expert discussion on COVID-19

EVENT:  UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy have partnered to host a panel of experts discussing COVID-19. Four experts will address four topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic in everyday terms for the non-scientific community. As society begins to reopen, these four topics […]

Gary Singer

UCI Lauds & Laurels event will celebrate contributions of 19 prominent alumni

Gary Singer to receive Extraordinarius award for almost 40 years of exemplary service

UCI Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology forge a research partnership

The Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism at UC Irvine and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have agreed to a partnership to advance research on how genes and metabolism shape our bodies and minds.

UC Irvine gets $2 million from W.M. Keck Foundation to further research in chemistry and microbiology

UC Irvine has received $2 million from the prestigious W.M. Keck Foundation to advance research in chemistry and microbiology.

UC Irvine News Brief: Salmonella investigator wins award

Dr. Manuela Raffatellu, assistant professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, has been chosen by the American Society for Microbiology to receive a 2010 Young Investigator Award.

Distinguished Professor to receive entomology award

Anthony James, Distinguished Professor of microbiology & molecular genetics and molecular biology & biochemistry, will receive the Nan-Yao Su Award…

The UCI School of Medicine team members who helped develop new viral vectors that will advance neural circuit mapping include, from left, front row: Michele Wu, Alexis Bouin, Ginny Wu, Qiao Ye and Xiangmin Xu; back row: Todd Holmes, Bert Semler, Orkide Koyuncu and Liqi Tong.

UC Irvine-led research team creates novel rabies viral vectors for neural circuit mapping

New tools can detect microstructural changes in aging and Alzheimer’s disease brain neurons

UCI assistant professor is awarded $100,000 grant for her research into women’s cancers

Gina Lee, UCI assistant professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, is one of 10 researchers to receive a $100,000 grant from the Mary Kay Ash Foundation for their innovative work in seeking cures for cancers affecting women. Lee’s team studies lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare tumor syndrome causing uncontrolled cell growth in the kidneys and lungs that […]

How a protein breaks free to cause deadly cancers

UCI-led finding helps propel search for improved treatments