Gifts & Grants

UCI and BlackBerry win National Science Foundation convergence accelerator grant

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 12, 2022 – The National Science Foundation has awarded $750,000 to a multidisciplinary team from the University of California, Irvine’s Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute, its Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and BlackBerry to address the challenges around secure communications on public 5G networks. The funds are being allocated […]

Three UCI scientists win NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards

High-Risk, High-Reward grants will support biomedical research projects

UCI researchers awarded $7.5 million for environmental justice initiative

NSF funding will support diversification, community engagement in Earth system science

UCI assistant professor is awarded $100,000 grant for her research into women’s cancers

Gina Lee, UCI assistant professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, is one of 10 researchers to receive a $100,000 grant from the Mary Kay Ash Foundation for their innovative work in seeking cures for cancers affecting women. Lee’s team studies lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare tumor syndrome causing uncontrolled cell growth in the kidneys and lungs that […]

Stephen Schueller (left) and Adrian Aguilera (right)

NIH funds collaboration to improve mental health treatment for Latinos

UCI, UCB and UCSF researchers aim to enhance use of digital interventions

Nancy and Geoffrey Stack Family Foundation give $2 million to UCI Health

Gift will support new hospital, cancer center coming in Irvine

UCI awarded $13.8 million federal contract to profile lipid nanoparticles

Findings will increase understanding of vaccine immune responses and side effects

UCI is key member of multi-institutional, $126 million NIH brain mapping project

Campus to receive $10 million over five years for role in Cell Atlas Network

The UCI research team is directed by (seated, from left) Frank LaFerla, Andrea Tenner and Kim Green. Other investigators include (standing, from left) Marcelo Wood, Arthur Lander, Grant MacGregor, Ian Smith, Vivek Swarup, Craig Stark, Andre Obenaus and Ali Mortazavi.

UCI Alzheimer’s project wins $47 million grant from National Institute on Aging

Scientists will develop mouse models to help unravel most common form of disease

Photos of Maura Allaire, assistant professor of urban planning & public policy, and Jun Wu, professor of public health.

NSF supports UCI team investigating inequities in drinking water

California water districts and ratepayers will serve as test subjects