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UCI hearing-loss researcher, other experts say AI can transform hearing healthcare, research

In a paper published online in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, experts from the U.K. and U.S. call for artificial intelligence to be applied to advancing research and developing new therapies to meet the growing global demand for hearing care. In its latest report on deafness and hearing loss, the World Health Organization projects that […]

UCI receives 5-year, $5 million CIRM award for training of diverse researchers

Program will prepare leaders in stem cell biology, gene therapy and regenerative medicine

New research “sniffs out” how associative memories are formed

UCI-led team is first to discover how the brain creates memories of delicious smells

UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman, Prof. Robert A. Mah, Dr. Adeline Yen Mah and and UCI Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Steve A.N. Goldstein

Falling Leaves Foundation $30 million lead gift to fund innovative UCI medical research building

Facility to be designed to advance cross-disciplinary teaching, translational research activities

Santa Ana awards UCI $700,000 to address healthcare inequities among the vulnerable

UCI researchers from the Program in Public Health and the School of Medicine have received $700,000 from the city of Santa Ana to address inequities and gaps in health services and enhance COVID-19 mitigation efforts in vulnerable populations. Santa Ana and the surrounding area are home to almost 600,000 residents who live in the highest […]

UCI virologist Michael Buchmeier

What you need to know about the delta variant

UCI coronavirus expert Michael Buchmeier answers your questions

UCI hosts topping-out ceremony for Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences

State-of-the-art nine-acre campus will be a catalyst for care

Brian Fargo and Dr. Hamid Djalilian

Brian Fargo, inXile founder, gives $1 million to advance UCI research for tinnitus treatment

Funding will support development of innovative implantable electronic stimulation device

NIH grant will fund study of novel approach to repairing permanently damaged retinas

Magdalene Seiler, Ph.D., UCI associate professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation, has been awarded a five-year, $3,823,950 grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a preclinical study on rodent models of an innovative co-graft approach to repair permanently damaged retinas. Cell transplantation offers a potential therapy for those who have already lost their […]

UCI-led team awarded $2.3 million as part of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine

Funding will be used to employ precision medicine to study the impacts of adverse and unpredictable experiences on children’s neurodevelopment