Grants

NIH grant will fund study of novel approach to repairing permanently damaged retinas

Magdalene Seiler, Ph.D., UCI associate professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation, has been awarded a five-year, $3,823,950 grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a preclinical study on rodent models of an innovative co-graft approach to repair permanently damaged retinas. Cell transplantation offers a potential therapy for those who have already lost their […]

Pharmaceutical sciences researcher gets NIH award for drug discovery tech development

The National Institutes of Health has granted $2 million to researchers in UCI’s School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. The new Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award will fund drug discovery technology development in the laboratory of Brian Paegel, UCI professor of pharmaceutical sciences. “The NIH has generously supported my laboratory over the years in reaction miniaturization […]

Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, UCI professor of ecology & evolutionary biology with a blue butter fly on her hand.

UCI’s Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe is named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow

Renowned biologist is among 184 diverse recipients of prestigious award this year

UCI-led team awarded $2.3 million as part of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine

Funding will be used to employ precision medicine to study the impacts of adverse and unpredictable experiences on children’s neurodevelopment

Laura Enriquez, UCI associate professor of Chicano/Latino studies

$50,000 grant will fund continued study of undocumented college student experiences

Laura Enriquez, UCI associate professor of Chicano/Latino studies, has received a $50,000 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to continue her UC Collaborative to Promote Immigrant and Student Equity project. The 18-campus UC and CSU study, which began in 2019, provides comprehensive insights into the ways in which students’ undocumented status disrupts their educational experiences […]

UCI’s Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History & Archaeology of Ancient Iran

Grant establishes endowment for doctoral fellowships in Iranian studies

Support further distinguishes UCI as destination for scholars of ancient and modern Iran

Grant will fund anthropologist’s innovative study of fire prevention, mitigation methods

To help improve fire prevention policies, Salvador Zarate, UCI assistant professor of anthropology, will use a $12,000 faculty fellowship from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to document the practices of Orange County weed abatement crews. “We experienced our worst fire season ever this year, and we can tap into the deep ecological […]

UCI joins national manufacturing cybersecurity collaboration

Calit2 to develop wireless platforms to promote sustainable factory processes

Megan Peters receives TWCO grant to help consciousness researchers secure funding

Megan Peters, associate professor of cognitive sciences, has received a three-year, $234,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Organization to enhance and accelerate National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation funding opportunities for consciousness researchers. “This is a complex concept and writing a compelling proposal can be challenging,” Peters says. The project will involve […]

Gates Foundation grant funds study of factors that prompt youth interest in certain careers

June Ahn, associate professor of education, has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a study identifying factors that motivate youth toward occupational careers. Ahn and his team will be working with K-12 after-school program educators and participants to gain an understanding of the key experiences that shape […]