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

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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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UCI IN THE NEWS

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

Link between biological clock and aging revealed

UCI-led study shows low-calorie diet may help keep body young

Proteins secreted by beneficial gut microbes shown to inhibit salmonella, invasive E. coli

UCI study finds that microcins help block illness-causing bacteria in inflamed intestines

UCI epigenetics center hosts Saudi university president

In 2014, UCI’s Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism and the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Saudi Arabia forged a partnership to advance research on how genes and metabolism shape our bodies and minds. This far-reaching effort shows the potential to provide a blueprint for personalized medicine, and on June 23, KAUST President […]