Health

One Health effort bridges disciplines to train workers to address infectious disease threats

Teen who received Heimlich training earlier in the day at a UCI nursing camp saves her choking father

Chang Liu, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a 2019 Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He will receive $825,000 over three years in support of his pioneering efforts to engineer synthetic genetic systems capable of rapid mutation and evolution in living cells. Liu is one of five fellows […]

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 […]

‘Small token of appreciation’ leads to surprise gifts for new UCI medical students

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

The National Institutes of Health has granted 2019 Director’s New Innovator Awards to three UCI early-career researchers: Han Li and Timothy Downing of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Kevin Beier of the School of Medicine. The faculty members will receive more than $2.2 million each over five years to support their work. Li, […]

UCI Health applies ‘game changing’ technology to improve screening

Philanthropist on a mission to help others turns $150,000 into $20 million effort to fight disease at UCI MIND

UCI campaign seeks to boost trailblazing research, student scholarships, healthcare advances and cultural endeavors