School of Medicine

Medical students honored for hosting LGBT conference

A team of UCI medical students led by sophomore Soe Thein has received the 2016 LGBT Health Achievement Award from the American Medical Student Association. The group, which also included students from UCLA and USC, was honored for hosting the Southern California LGBT Health Conference, which was held Feb. 20 in UCI’s Medical Education Building. […]

Lung tumors hijack metabolic processes in the liver, UCI study finds

Research provides first insights into how cancer rewires circadian rhythms

Leslie Thompson

UCI team finds method to reduce accumulation of damaging Huntington’s disease protein

A study appearing April 14 in the journal Neuron suggests there may be a new way to change the damaging course of Huntington disease. University of California, Irvine neurobiologists Leslie Thompson and Joseph Ochaba and their colleagues from UCI and from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have shown that reducing the aberrant accumulation of a particular form of the […]

UCI study finds safer stem cell-derived therapy for brain radiation recovery

Microvesicle injections restored cognition without adverse side effects

Controlling blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol linked to 62 percent lower cardiovascular disease risk in patients with diabetes

UCI report also reveals only 7 percent in major heart studies successfully managed these 3 factors

Stroke of the Future

In 20 years, stem cells, genetics and robotics will get patients back on their feet after a blood clot in the brain

UCI scientists receive $8 million to help develop Q fever vaccine

Federally supported effort is aimed at mitigating bioterrorism threat

Match Day: The day they became doctors

UCI’s graduating medical students look to the future on March 18 as they learn where their careers will start

UCI autism center names new director of education & training

Anna Laakman, who has extensive experience establishing best teaching practices at one of the nation’s most distinguished autism centers, has joined UCI’s Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders as director of education & training. In her new role, Laakman will develop innovative training opportunities for those who interact with and serve individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, […]

Put the cellphone away! Fragmented baby care can affect brain development

UCI study shows maternal infant-rearing link to adolescent depression