Gifts & Grants

CIRM awards UCI $2.7 million to create regenerative medicine training program

Brian Cummings, UCI professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and founding member of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a training program that supports first-generation and underserved students pursuing careers in public health and regenerative medicine. […]

The UCI Health – Irvine medical complex adjacent to the new health sciences campus

UCI closes its second-highest fundraising year with over $223 million

Brilliant Future campaign tops $1.3 billion with more than 86,000 supporters

UCI chemists receive $25 million in Department of Energy funding

Researchers will explore new technologies for energy conversion, carbon capture and nuclear power

Susan and Henry Samueli

UCI receives $4 million matching gift for Center for Jewish Studies

Donation from Susan and Henry Samueli to advance research, combat antisemitism

A trio of participants graduating from the Orange County Young Adult Court in October 2021 bookend two of the program’s key collaborators, Orange County Superior Court Judge Maria Hernandez (second from left) and UCI Professor Elizabeth Cauffman (center).

UCI awarded $10.1 million grant to expand O.C. Young Adult Court study

Funding will provide more extensive wraparound services for program participants

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

UCI scientists win $3.5 million grant for bold addiction research

California approves $5 million to fund diversity in science and technology education

Cal-Bridge Program aims to diversify the state’s public university faculty and tech workforce

UCI’s 2022-23 Hellman Fellows, from upper left, clockwise: Ariyan Johnson, Katherine Thompson-Peer, Benis Egoh, Xiaoyu Shi, Yanning Shen, Nadia Chernyak and Samar Al-Bulushi.

Seven UCI faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2022-23

Program supports research by assistant professors

NASA grant supports UCI-led project to remotely monitor changes in beaches, dunes

New techniques to measure coastal topography will improve understanding of flood risk

Rendering of The Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care at UCI Health–Irvine

Joe C. Wen and family donate $20 million to support the new UCI Health Center for Advanced Care

Generous gift names the first of three buildings to open at the new UCI Health–Irvine complex