Medicine

Dr. Daniel Chow, a major in the U.S. Army Reserves, served as a radiologist at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait this spring.

Double duty

Dr. Daniel Chow serves both UCI Health patients and American soldiers overseas

Phillip Felgner

UC Irvine receives initial $33 million in federal support for vaccine research

Philip Felgner to lead multi-institutional pandemic planning effort

Monica Daley, UC Irvine professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

UC Irvine receives record $668 million in research funding for fiscal 2023-24

Increase reflects strong support for campus mission

Man in a lab coat looking at a computer screen.

UC Irvine discovery of ‘item memory’ brain cells offers new Alzheimer’s treatment target

Finding significantly deepens understanding of crucial component of cognitive function

UC Irvine School of Medicine Dean Michael Stamos.

Advancing regenerative medicine therapies

Discoveries in the new GMP facility will expand novel gene and cell treatment options for patients

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

Anne Calof, UCI professor of anatomy and neurobiology; Stephenson Chea, UCI developmental and cell biology graduate student researcher; and Dr. Arthur Lander, UCI Donald Bren Professor and Distinguished Professor of developmental and cell biology.

UC Irvine-led study unlocks the secrets of birth defect origins

Findings offer new targets for early detection and prevention strategies

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