Health

Anteater class of ’17 is ready to tackle the future

A $1.25 million gift from PharmaResearch Products Co. Ltd. will fund research by Young Jik Kwon, UCI professor of pharmaceutical sciences. His BioTherapeutics Engineering Laboratory group has been exploring innovative methods for the efficient and safe delivery of therapeutic molecules such as drugs, nucleic acids and proteins. With this support, Kwon hopes to generate novel […]

Major federal funding establishes campus as international center of excellence

The Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing was recently awarded grants for $240,000 and $80,000 through the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act of the California Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development. Both are designed to bolster programs aimed at educating nurses to serve in areas of unmet need and to increase the […]

The American Academy of Neurology is giving UCI’s Dr. Claudia Kawas a 2017 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s & Related Diseases for her dementia work. Sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of Alzheimer’s research, the $100,000 award is an internationally recognized tribute to those advancing our understanding of dementia. Kawas will be […]

For the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, we take a look at some current UCI trailblazers

Engaged couple among graduating medical students who learn in dramatic ritual where they’ll serve residencies

11other fields of study place in top 25 among public universities in annual list

Engaged couple among graduating medical students who’ll soon learn in dramatic ritual where they’ll serve residencies

Nursing faculty, staff and students celebrate program’s elevated status