EVENT: The UCI Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences commencement services for its sixth graduating class will be held in the Bren Events Center on Monday, June 13. Steve A.N. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., FAAP, UCI vice chancellor for health affairs, will preside over the ceremony. Clayton Chau, M.D., Ph.D., MASL, the Orange County […]
UCI Health dermatologist Anand Ganesan created new compounds that slow skin cancer growth
Team-based model in pharmacy and medicine delivers cost-effective, personalized patient care
Two UCI deans dissect the impact humanistic viewpoints can have on healthcare
A team from the UCI Skin Biology Resource Center has been awarded a five-year, $970,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to launch an interdisciplinary skin biology training program. Designed to develop the next generation of interdisciplinary research physicians and scientist leaders in academia and industry, the program takes advantage […]
Mathematician Svetlana Jitomirskaya, vision researcher Krzysztof Palczewski honored
Roxane Cohen Silver leads UCI team awarded a RAPID grant to begin survey
Marquis Vawter, Ph.D., research professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the UCI School of Medicine, participated in companion studies published in Nature, analyzing regions of the human genome associated with increased risk of schizophrenia. Researchers knew that the disorder carries a 60 to 80 percent inheritability and wanted to determine common […]
Selma Masri, assistant professor of biological chemistry in the UCI School of Medicine, has won the prestigious 2022 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award for Science. The awards program honors one scholar in each STEM2D discipline: science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing and design. The six diverse, international female recipients were selected out of a competitive […]
UCI researchers have originated a simplified, faster clinical sample testing method to detect genetic material, including viral RNA. Their findings were recently published in the journal Scientific Reports. “We showed that a saliva sample withdrawn using a simple microbiological loop can be directly analyzed in a single collection tube, using common and precise DNA amplification […]