School of Medicine

UC Irvine researchers find new Alzheimer's mechanism linked to brain inflammation

Discovery reveals long-studied receptor is built differently than previously understood

UC Irvine Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Cameron Carter.

UC Irvine's Cameron Carter is elected to National Academy of Medicine

Distinguished Professor is recognized for advances in cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry

Dr. J. Stuart Nelson from the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic demonstrates the Dynamic Cooling Device, in 2011.

Lighting the way

How watching a baseball game led to a discovery that made laser surgery possible

Leslie M. Thompson, Donald Bren Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and Neurobiology & Behavior at UC Irvine.

CIRM awards UC Irvine neuroscientist another $2 million for Huntington's disease research

Goal is to determine why the fatal condition destroys some brain cells but spares others

Michael Demetriou

Unique pan-cancer immunotherapy destroys tumors without attacking healthy tissue, UC Irvine study shows

Next step is testing ‘holy grail’ therapy’s safety and effectiveness in patients

Krzysztof Palczewski

The science of sight

Researcher Krzysztof Palczewski leads UC Irvine’s bold pursuit to cure blindness

Sean Young, UC Irvine professor of informatics and emergency medicine

Music as medicine

Integrating eclectic interests in latest research, Sean Young finds that mindfully listening to jazz reduces pain

James and Cynthia DeBoard standing in laboratory.

$15 million gift to name, support UC Irvine's Center for Translational Vision Research

Donation honors memory of entrepreneur, philanthropist Robert M. Brunson

Elizabeth Head, M.A., Ph.D. Professor, Vice Chair for Research Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Elizabeth Andrews, grad student

Women with Down syndrome may develop Alzheimer's disease more rapidly than men

UC Irvine study finds sex differences may impact treatment approaches

UC Irvine expands national leadership in Alzheimer's research with $21 million grant

UCI MIND secures National Institute on Aging funding for 5 more years to further discovery