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Dr. S. Ahmad Sajjadi receives the inaugural UCI MIND Joan and Don Beall Scholar Award

Support for research into degenerative brain disease biomarkers

Students from Santa Ana and Anaheim high schools learn about neuroanatomy as part of the UCI MIND Beall Scholar Program to Inspire Future STEM Leaders.

Support from Joan and Don Beall will sustain two UCI MIND programs

Funding will advance educational outreach in Orange County and early career research

UCI MIND awarded $14.4 million NIH grant to continue critical Alzheimer’s disease research, education

UCI MIND, the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders at UCI, has been awarded a $14.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, to sustain critical research and education as Orange County’s only Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The NIA funds only 32 of these centers at […]

UCI MIND gets grant to identify compounds that reduce brain damage seen in Alzheimer’s

The UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Orange County Community Foundation’s S.L. Gimbel Foundation Fund. The money will support the testing of 1,200+ FDA-approved compounds to gauge their effectiveness in preventing microglia from destroying brain synapses. Such damage “is seen frequently in patients with Alzheimer’s […]

UCI MIND redesignated as Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

UC Irvine’s Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders has received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to renew its status as one of only 27 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers in the nation – and the only one in Orange County.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI MIND director partners with StemCells Inc. to create new Alzheimer's treatments

Frank LaFerla will study the therapeutic potential of the company’s human neural stem cells.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI MIND study finds plaque-blocking compound that may aid Alzheimer’s treatments

Researchers with the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) have discovered how a novel compound can reduce the accumulation of brain plaques seen in Alzheimer’s disease without the side effects produced by any current drugs used for the chronic neurodegenerative disease.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI MIND donation

The Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, or UCI MIND, and its group for graduate students interested in neurological disorders, ReMIND, have received a $12,000 donation from Betty’s Foundation.

Albert Chang, medical director, UCI Student Health Center

UCI Student Health: There for Both Mind and Body

Dr. Albert Chang, medical director of the UCI Student Health Center, discusses the center’s role in maintaining students’ mental and physical well-being through these troubled years

ROTC established at UCI with 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in mind

Campus’s agreement with US Army includes full nondiscrimination provision, which is perhaps the first in the nation.