UC Irvine News Brief: Sassone-Corsi made external member of Max Planck Society

The Donald Bren Professor and chair of pharmacology has been appointed to the Institute for Immunobiology & Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany.

Estée Lauder endowment will establish epigenetics fellowship at UCI

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

UC Irvine News Brief: Pharmacology chair finds circadian rhythms-cancer link

Discovery by Donald Bren Professor Paolo Sassone-Corsi suggests that certain cancers, like leukemia, may be regulated by humans’ internal body clock and susceptible to new drug treatments.

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Watching the body clock for better health

Paolo Sassone-Corsi is perhaps the world’s leading researcher on the body clock, and what he’s discovered may one day improve human health.

Genetic switch for circadian rhythms discovered

UC Irvine researchers, led by Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Distinguished Professor and pharmacology chair, have identified the chemical switch that triggers the…

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New UCI-led study finds links between circadian rhythms, metabolism and addiction

Findings reveal possible role for peripheral organs in substance use disorders

How melatonin can make you sleep better: what it is, how much to take, and the health benefits

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ABC 7, Oct. 1, 2019UC Irvine’s middle school for students with ADHD, autism finds success The school’s curriculum is based on mounds of research from the National Institutes of Health and the University of California. … Students at UC Irvine’s Child Development Center learn more than history and science. “What the program aims to do […]

UCI research helps shed new light on circadian clocks

Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain, studies show

UCI-led study reveals communication among organs, tissues regulating body’s energy

First-ever ‘atlas’ of circadian metabolism shows how disruptions may lead to disease