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

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

Physiology & biophysics professor co-writes book on how membranes, their proteins work

Stephen H. White, a professor of physiology & biophysics in the UCI School of Medicine since 1973, has co-authored a book that he calls the culmination of his career. Cell Boundaries (Garland Science, 2021) was 13 years in the making and describes how membranes and their proteins work. White and his collaborators, Gunnar von Heijne, […]

Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, UCI study finds

By hoarding water underground, vegetation will help saturate soil, boosting rain runoff

Monica Daley

UC Irvine receives $15 million NSF grant for integrative movement research

Monica Daley to lead multidisciplinary effort to explore muscle dynamics

Philip Kiser, UCI associate professor of physiology & biophysics as well as ophthalmology,

UC Irvine study shows similarities and differences in human and insect vision formation

Discovery offers insights into retinal disease origins and potential therapeutic targets

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

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

2023 Year in Review

2023 Year in Review – Faculty achievements

Dr. Mark Fisher, professor of neurology in UCI’s School of Medicine

UC Irvine-led study is first to find brain hemorrhage cause other than injured blood vessels

Discovery deepens understanding of cerebral microbleeds, may offer new therapeutic targets

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

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