Health

Women's History Month collage featuring: (top left to right: Katrine Whiteson, Sunny Jiang, Joleah Lamb; (bottom left to right) Karen Lincoln, Aomawa Shields, Luiza Osorio Silva and Roxane Cohen Silver.

Profiles of excellence

For Women’s History Month, UC Irvine salutes its influential researchers

Diego Pizzagalli, head of UC Irvine’s Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries.

Demystifying depression

Founding director of collaborative research institute is eager to make a difference

Natalie Binczewski, a UC Irvine Ph.D. candidate in environmental health sciences.

UC Irvine-led study finds possible links between PFAS exposure and childhood cancers

Results underscore value of continued monitoring for drinking water contamination

UC Irvine scientists invent new drug candidates to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria

The new family of antibiotics may one day help save thousands of lives each year

Pharmaceutical Sciences Lauren Albrecht lab with Lauren Albrecht, (far left) assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and colleagues.

UC Irvine assistant professor Lauren Albrecht named 2025 Sloan Foundation Research Fellow

Accomplished early-career pharmaceutical scientist recognized as next-generation leader

UC Irvine study finds HEPA filters improve classroom air quality

Simple solution can reduce students’ pollution exposure

Kei Igarashi, UC Irvine associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology, is awarded the 41st Inoue Prize for Science by Atsushi Koma, president of the Inoue Foundation.

UC Irvine School of Medicine associate professor awarded Inoue Prize for Science

Kei Igarashi recognized for outstanding achievement in memory and dementia research

UCI Health’s Dr. Maheswari Senthil (left) and Dr. Farshid Dayyani

Answers for cancers

Annual campus fundraiser supports promising studies, including Stopgap trial

Jun Wu, UC Irvine professor of environmental and occupational health standing in a field with plants.

UC Irvine-led study notes need for better wildfire readiness in Eastern Coachella Valley

Improving communication is key in disadvantaged communities in unincorporated areas

Gold colored thin film on the wing of a butterfly which is on the end of a human finger.

UC Irvine, Columbia University researchers invent soft, bioelectronic sensor implant

Device conforms to body’s tissues, allowing brain monitoring through development