Expert analysis omicron variant BA.2 as it causes surge in Europe

KCBS, March 16, 2022 (Video)

How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause a COVID-19 spike in Europe

Healthline, March 1, 2022

COVID-19 AMA: New Pfizer pill may cut severe illness risk, Europe is pandemic epicenter again, and more

KPCC (Air Talk), Nov. 5, 2021 (Audio)

What the second wave of coronavirus in Europe means for Americans: CNBC After Hours

CNBC, Sept. 25, 2020 (Video)

Is the U.S. handling the COVID-19 pandemic better than Europe?

Reason.com, Sept. 9, 2020

2 European patients are said to have been reinfected with COVID-19

New York Daily News, Aug. 25, 2020

World coronavirus news – Sweden stayed open while much of Europe was shut. New numbers show the toll.

The New York Times, May 15, 2020

Alex Nicolau elected into Academia Europaea

Alex Nicolau, chair and Distinguished Professor of computer science, has been admitted to the Academia Europaea. Founded in 1988, the academy comprises esteemed scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research. Nominated by their peers for sustained academic excellence in their fields, members – who have included 73 Nobel laureates and six Turing Award winners – […]

UCI researchers find epigenetic tie to neuropsychiatric disorders

Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain’s prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.

Chinese herbal compound relieves inflammatory and neuropathic pain

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 2, 2014 — A compound derived from a traditional Chinese herbal medicine has been found effective at alleviating pain, pointing the way to a new nonaddictive analgesic for acute inflammatory and nerve pain, according to UC Irvine pharmacology researchers. Working with Chinese scientists, Olivier Civelli and his UC Irvine colleagues isolated a compound […]