Public Health

CIRM awards UCI $2.7 million to create regenerative medicine training program

Brian Cummings, UCI professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and founding member of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a training program that supports first-generation and underserved students pursuing careers in public health and regenerative medicine. […]

Crystal Cove State Park’s Pelican Point beach in Newport Beach, California.

UCI receives $580 million in research funding for fiscal 2021-22

Amount is second-highest ever, reflecting strong support for campus mission

Two people sitting at a table

Exploring the mind-body connection

New public health course looks at whole-person approach to well-being

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

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

UCI scientists win $3.5 million grant for bold addiction research

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

UCI-led study links repeated hurricane exposure to adverse psychological symptoms

As climate threats escalate, increased negative mental health outcomes likely

David B. Richardson

UCI-led study finds prolonged, low-level radon exposure still a leading cause of lung cancer

Data analysis shows high mortality rates, indicating stronger protections needed

UCI researchers find that aspirin alters colorectal cancer evolution

Next up: Does the medication offer protection against other forms of cancer?

Roxane Cohen Silver

NSF supports research studying how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affects Americans

Roxane Cohen Silver leads UCI team awarded a RAPID grant to begin survey