School of Medicine

Shahrdad Lotfipour

UC Irvine to lead study of how DNA genetic variations might influence nicotine addiction

Findings may improve prevention and treatment strategies for smoking, vaping habits

UC Irvine researchers find new origin of deep brain waves

Knowledge of hippocampal activity could help improve sleep and cognition therapies

Genomics team: Wei Li (left), Ya Cui, Wenbin Ye and Jason Sheng Li.

UC Irvine-led research team builds first tandem repeat expansions genetic reference maps

Tool gives potential to expand insight into diseases, neurological disorders and cancers

Three men.

UC Irvine-led research team discovers role of key enzymes that drive cancer mutations

APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B offer potential new targets for intervention strategies

Clare Dasilva (left, in gold dress) and Gabby Rodriguez (right, in blue sweater) congratulate Betty Tesfaye (center), who will be going to New York University for a residency in pediatrics.

A match made in medicine

Graduating UCI medical students learn at festive ceremony where they will first practice as doctors

Man smiling

Dr. Robert McCarron shares UCI program success with Congressional committee

Train New Trainers Primary Care Fellowships expand delivery

Philip Kiser, UCI associate professor of physiology & biophysics as well as ophthalmology,

UC Irvine study shows similarities and differences in human and insect vision formation

Discovery offers insights into retinal disease origins and potential therapeutic targets

An elderly woman who had never seen a physician in her life hugs Dr. Cristobal Barrios Jr. of UCI Health during his humanitarian visit to Ecuador last year.

Surgeon leads overseas medical missions to poor villages

UCI doctor most recently took a group of volunteers to Ecuador

The UCI School of Medicine team members who helped develop new viral vectors that will advance neural circuit mapping include, from left, front row: Michele Wu, Alexis Bouin, Ginny Wu, Qiao Ye and Xiangmin Xu; back row: Todd Holmes, Bert Semler, Orkide Koyuncu and Liqi Tong.

UC Irvine-led research team creates novel rabies viral vectors for neural circuit mapping

New tools can detect microstructural changes in aging and Alzheimer’s disease brain neurons

Man with glasses looking at camera.

School of Medicine receives prestigious grant from Research to Prevent Blindness

Funding will support eye research conducted by the Department of Ophthalmology