Health Sciences

Findings by UCI scientists may unlock new treatment approaches

Irvine, Calif., March 19, 2019 — Bernadette Boden-Albala, Dr.P.H. – a renowned researcher and administrator whose efforts to reduce health disparities for America’s disadvantaged became a blueprint for community-based stroke and heart disease prevention – has been named director and founding dean of the University of California, Irvine’s planned School of Population Health, effective July […]

Shock wave device used by UCI Health urologists revamps treatment for painful kidney deposits

Leslie Thompson of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and UCI MIND has been awarded $6 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to continue her CIRM-supported efforts to create stem cell treatments for Huntington’s disease. The funding will allow the Thompson lab to conduct the late-stage testing needed to apply […]

Renowned academic leader will oversee new College of Health Sciences

Renowned leader from UC San Diego will help drive research, delivery innovations at UCI

Donor-endowed scholarship helps first-gen college student achieve her dream of becoming a doctor

Talk will address intersection of politics and science, need to renew research funding

UCI center designs artificial intelligence systems to speed critical diagnoses

With a $30,000 grant from the University of California Global Climate Leadership Council, Oladele Ogunseitan, chair and professor in UCI’s Program in Public Health, will host a workshop in the winter quarter of 2019 to train as many as 20 faculty members in the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences to integrate the health […]