Grants

Won awarded $6 million Department of Defense research grant

Multidisciplinary initiative to investigate thermal energy technologies

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UC Irvine to lead next phase of UC’s California Alliance for Minority Participation

National Science Foundation awards $2.5 million for longtime STEM initiative

Dr. Federico Vaca

NIH to support UC Irvine research on reducing alcohol-influenced crash injuries

Dr. Federico Vaca will lead effort to identify risk factors among young drivers

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Dawn Bounds receives NIDA grant to test traumatized youth intervention program

GRIT helps adolescents and families develop resilience to adverse childhood events

UC Irvine grad student training program aims to broaden access to cardiovascular care

New NSF-funded initiative emphasizes technological solutions to health disparities

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School of Medicine awarded $1.5 million suicide prevention grant

Identification of blood-based biomarkers may predict risk to help save lives

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CNCM is awarded $1.4 million NIH grant for Alzheimer’s disease research training

Funds will support projects with significant clinical translational potential

UC Irvine global health researcher receives $4.3 million to study invasive malaria vector and urban malaria in Africa

Grant establishes UC Irvine as one of the International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research

Getting to the root of the problem: does tobacco product exposure where Black and Latiné youth live, work, and play increase their risk of tobacco-related health disparities? 

UCI researcher receives $1.3 million dollar grant from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program

Shahrdad Lotfipour

UC Irvine to lead study of how DNA genetic variations might influence nicotine addiction

Findings may improve prevention and treatment strategies for smoking, vaping habits