Health

Professor Geoffrey Abbott discusses the molecular mechanism behind some botanical folk medicines

Aided by scholarship, transfer student prepares to ‘bring a better quality of healthcare to underserved populations’

Sherrie Kaplan and her colleagues in the Health Policy Research Institute at UCI have received a $1.4 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to determine how effective diabetes treatments are for children. For the study, the researchers have developed and tested an animated, computer-administered program, the Child Health Rating Inventories, that can be […]

UCI Brain Launch Event kicks off an ambitious campus effort to expand the horizons of neuroscience research

With jump in patients expected, new leader of clinical research operations at UCI MIND aims to accelerate translation of discoveries into effective treatments

UCI researchers and collaborators have developed a “lab on a chip” platform to facilitate continuous, inexpensive, rapid and personalized drug screening. The technology is capable of evaluating the effectiveness of treatments on cancer cells without bulky readout equipment or requiring the shipment of samples to labs. The scientists’ work is the subject of a new […]

Gala marks anniversary, evolution of UCI department, only the second established in the state

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 […]