Health Sciences

Use of the popular weight loss drugs could threaten pediatric health

UCI empowers high school students to explore careers

UCI researchers dive deep in search of health-sleep links

The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Anai Campos Contreras, incoming UC Irvine postdoctoral fellow in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, a 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences. Campos received a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 2022 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Later this summer, she will join the laboratory of Thomas Martinez, […]

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 […]

Gift launches Engineering+ research institutes on health, society and the environment

Funding will support preclinical studies of engineered jaw joint implant

For NSF-funded project, participants learn about organ segmentation, 3D printing, lasers and artificial intelligence

New high-fidelity simulation classroom serves as a hub for interprofessional education among healthcare students

Three questions with professor of pharmaceutical sciences John Chaput, who discusses using synthetic genetics in drug discovery