Health

Richard J. Gannotta

Richard J. Gannotta tapped to head UCI Health

Seasoned national executive takes helm of top-ranked research hospital

UCI Center on Stress & Health awarded $6.3 million by National Institutes of Health

Funding will advance digital methods to alleviate pediatric surgery stress and pain

UCI study shows in-home therapy effective for stroke rehabilitation

A multisite US clinical trial compared home-based telerehabilitation program with traditional in-clinic rehabilitation therapy

Aileen Anderson gives a presentation in 2015 at Gross Hall.

Healing from within

UCI stem cell researcher confronts science denialism, deceptive clinics and dwindling funding

UCI calls for volunteers as NIH’s landmark $1.5 billion precision medicine research effort launches nationwide

Irvine, Calif., May 1, 2018 — The All of Us Research Program opens for national enrollment Sunday, May 6. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living in the United States. […]

American Association for Cancer Research-Aflac Inc. awards $100,000 to UCI cancer biologist Claudia Benavente

Claudia Benavente, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and developmental & cell biology, was awarded a $100,000 grant through the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The AACR-Aflac Incorporated Career Development Award for Pediatric Cancer Research is given every year to a project believed to have significant impact in the field of pediatric cancer research. Benavente’s […]

Todd Holmes receives UCI’s first Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the NIH

Physiology & biophysics professor Todd Holmes has received a five-year, $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study how insects process short-wavelength light in the ultraviolet-through-blue spectral range. This work builds on research from the Holmes lab published over the past few years in Science, Nature and […]

Fulbright’s finest

UCI rates as top-producing school for prestigious international exchange program

Frances Leslie to receive 2018 legacy award from Orange County Connected Women of Influence

Frances Leslie, vice provost and dean for graduate studies at UCI, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2018 Lifetime Legacy Award from Orange County Connected Women of Influence. The award recognizes women who have demonstrated superior leadership over several years and who have a significant track record of long-term achievements in their field. Leslie […]

Nursing professor to study fitness therapies with grant from National Institute on Aging

Lorraine Evangelista, professor and interim associate dean of Academic & Student Affairs in the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, was awarded an exploratory/developmental research grant by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging (R21AG053162) for her study entitled, “Fitness Intensive Therapy (Get FIT) to Promote Healthy Living in Older Adults.” The award […]