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Pramod Khargonekar, vice chancellor for research, left, with Dr. Michael Stamos, dean of the School of Medicine, center, and Frank LaFerla, dean of the School of Biological Sciences.

Audrey Steele Burnand estate gifts $57.75 million to UCI

Majority will establish world-class, campuswide depression research center

UCI researchers discover cause, develop pharmacological treatment for reducing retinitis pigmentosa vision loss

Inhibiting ceramide accumulation in retina protects photoreceptors, improves vision

7 UCI researchers are elected AAAS fellows, giving campus total of 192

Scholars are honored for their efforts to advance science or its applications

Susan Turner (top left), UCI professor of criminology, law & society and director of the university’s consistently top-ranked online M.A.S. program in the subject, meets virtually with some of the 95 students currently enrolled.

UCI online criminology master’s program is again ranked No. 1 by U.S. News

It’s been judged the best in the nation for three consecutive years

The “Americans and the Holocaust” traveling exhibition panel

UCI Libraries will host ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ traveling exhibition

Special events, secondary exhibit on the 1940s will complement the installation

Amal Alachkar

UCI study could explain why Parkinson’s drug improves, then diminishes quality of life

L-dopa-protein complex may cause cellular iron overload in brain, leading to side effects

Public health study presents strategies for increasing diversity of clinical trials

In a paper published online in cell.com/Neuron, Bernadette Boden-Albala, founding dean of the planned School of Population & Public health and director of the Program in Public Health, highlights three key areas for increasing the participation of women and racial/ethnic minorities in clinical trials. Diversity delivers greater generalizability of results, more ethically sound research and […]

UCI-led research team discovers a molecular feature in prostate cancer with prognostic value, distinguishes ancestral differences

Expression signatures may be useful for assessing greatest risk of progression in prostate and other cancers

UCI-led team develops new biopsy technology for analyzing multiple tumor tissue biomarkers

Mapping cellular spatial organization and interactions will advance personalized treatment

UCI-led team first to discover new neural circuits that regulate spatial learning and memory in the brain’s hippocampal formation

Understanding of novel functional roles can advance research in Alzheimer’s disease, other learning and memory disorders