Gifts & Grants

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Quinton Smith named 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biological Sciences

Quinton Smith, UC Irvine assistant professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Charitable Trusts supports outstanding biomedical researchers at the start of their careers. Pew has honored this year’s group of 22 early-career scientists by furnishing four years of funding for the pursuit of […]

Postdoctoral fellow is awarded $100,000 to continue study of fragile X syndrome

Most common inherited cause of autism

UCI biomedical engineer Kyriacos Athanasiou wins $6 million CIRM grant

Funding will support preclinical studies of engineered jaw joint implant

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Dr. S. Ahmad Sajjadi receives the inaugural UCI MIND Joan and Don Beall Scholar Award

Support for research into degenerative brain disease biomarkers

Héctor Tobar (left) and Roland Betancourt.

Héctor Tobar and Roland Betancourt are named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows

UC Irvine scholars are among 171 recipients of the prestigious award

UCI researchers join DOE-funded project to reinvent lithium-ion battery recycling

R&D effort is aimed at improving environmental sustainability and lowering costs

UCI’s Bernadette Boden-Albala, center, pictured with Irvine Health Foundation Board Chair Timothy L. Strader Sr., left, and President Edward B. Kacic, right.

Irvine Health Foundation’s $14 million grant to UC Irvine will establish 7 endowed chairs

Funding will assist in establishing a School of Population and Public Health and promote health equity for all O.C. residents

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UCI professor awarded $2.5 million grant to lead multisite Gulf War illness clinical trial

Butyrate shows promise

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$1.1M grant from Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative formalizes partnership between UC Irvine and Anaheim Union High School District

Project aims to help instill a sense of purpose in students as they prepare for their futures

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UC support continues research collaboration between Irvine, Santa Cruz, Merced campuses

$840,000 in funding will expand study on the traffic of captive Africans within the Americas