NIH funding will support graduate students in ‘gateway’ year of systems biology Ph.D. program

The National Institutes of Health has awarded UCI $1.2 million to fund graduate students in the mathematical & computational biology “gateway” year into the Ph.D. program.

UCI garners $11.5 million in continued support of systems biology center

The award provides five years of additional support to the biologists, mathematicians, physicists, engineers and computer scientists who collaborate in pursuit of a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of complex biological systems.

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Explaining life through systems biology

UC Irvine is a hot spot for systems biology, a new approach to learning why the human body and other organisms work the way they do.

Left to right, Hui Wang, Allison Welch and Jinhyuk Kim, graduate students in the UC Irvine Department of Earth System Science.

UC Irvine researchers shine light on rapid changes in Arctic and boreal ecosystems

The changes point toward increasingly unstable ecosystems at high latitudes

UCI team gets $970,000 NIH grant to launch interdisciplinary skin biology training effort

A team from the UCI Skin Biology Resource Center has been awarded a five-year, $970,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to launch an interdisciplinary skin biology training program. Designed to develop the next generation of interdisciplinary research physicians and scientist leaders in academia and industry, the program takes advantage […]

California’s massive UC and Cal State systems plan to require COVID-19 vaccinations this fall

Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2021

UCI to establish skin biology, diseases resource center with $4 million NIH award

Grant will accelerate, enhance the effectiveness of basic, translational and clinical research

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI Center for Environmental Biology established

UC Irvine’s School of Biological Sciences has formed the Center for Environmental Biology, which will coordinate research partnerships among UCI scientists and neighboring land groups.

Center for Complex Biological Systems awarded $2 million from NIH

The National Institutes of Health has awarded UC Irvine’s Center for Complex Biological Systems $2 million over two years under…

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