Health Sciences

UCI-led study deepens understanding of the effects of media exposure to collective trauma

According to a new UCI-led study, it’s not just how much media exposure an individual has to collective trauma but also the graphic quality of what one sees that may make a person more vulnerable to trauma-related mental and physical health problems over time. The team analyzed the results from more than 3,000 anonymous online […]

Dementia developments

Co-hosted by UCI MIND, the 30th Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference will share recent discoveries

UCI kicks off largest philanthropic campaign in Orange County history

Campus seeks $2 billion for research, healthcare, scholarships, cultural endeavors

Beating colon cancer with AI

UCI Health applies ‘game changing’ technology to improve screening

UCI, other researchers develop deep-learning technique to ID at-risk anatomy in CT scans

Radiation therapy is one of the most widely used cancer treatments, but a drawback of the procedure is that it can cause collateral damage to healthy tissue in proximity to cancerous growths. Identifying organs at risk via CT scans is a difficult and labor-intensive process, but UCI computer scientists and researchers from other institutions have […]

Encouraging community access

Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center seeks to demystify its work with public lecture series, open houses

UCI engineers receive NSF grant to develop biosensors for measuring neurotransmitters

UCI engineers have received $1 million from the National Science Foundation to design integrative approaches for measuring real-time brain activity during social interactions in sleep-disrupted animal models. Early-life sleep disruption has been shown to affect the development of complex social behaviors in prairie voles, the studied model, impairing social bonding in a manner similar to […]

Dr. Dan M. Cooper, director of UCI’s Institute for Clinical & Translational Science

UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Science receives $24 million NIH grant

Funding continues campus effort to speed scientific discoveries into medical advances

In first-of-its-kind study, UCI researchers highlight hookah health hazards

Smokers exposed to toxic chemicals, ultrafine particles and carbon monoxide

Carol Booth Olson, UCI professor of education

UCI receives record $441 million in research funding for fiscal 2018-19

22 percent more than last year, the total reflects strong support for campus mission