Health

The UCI cross-disciplinary graduate student team won first place in Phase 1 of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students, in which they revealed the lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana. (From left: Annika Hjelmstad, Ashley Green, David Bañuelas, Tim Schütz, Ariane Jong, and Alexis Guerra.)

UCI takes first place in EPA Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students

Cross-disciplinary graduate student team reveals lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana

John Chaput

UCI-developed COVID-19 test detects, identifies specific variants with 100% accuracy

RNA-based method advances personalized medicine for improved patient care

Alpesh Amin

Precision health perspectives

Alpesh Amin discusses how utilizing health data can lead to the very best care and chance for good health

View of planet Earth

Earth guardians

UCI researchers seek solutions to the many effects of climate change

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

UCI scientists win $3.5 million grant for bold addiction research

How a protein breaks free to cause deadly cancers

UCI-led finding helps propel search for improved treatments

Jonathan Watnabe looking at camera.

A new approach to opioid addiction

UCI professor advocates easier access to medication-assisted treatment – and eradicating the social stigma

Leslie Thompson

Precision health perspectives

Leslie Thompson discusses how UCI’s collaborative approach can help usher in the next great advancement in healthcare

Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research laboratory manager Hillary Piccerillo (left) and former lab technician Peggy Galvez oversee the robotic transfer of saliva from collection tubes to test plates for an experiment.

‘A window into the body'

Researchers at UCI salivary bioscience institute are championing the use of spit in diagnostics

Rendering of The Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care at UCI Health–Irvine

Joe C. Wen and family donate $20 million to support the new UCI Health Center for Advanced Care

Generous gift names the first of three buildings to open at the new UCI Health–Irvine complex