Medicine

Phil Felgner, director of UCI’s Vaccine R&D Center, gazing through a window

Blood will tell

UCI researchers create coronavirus microarray test to determine true prevalence of COVID-19 infection and gauge antibody responses

June 03, 2020

UCI medical student Mehron Dhillon stacks donations of personal protective equipment during a drive for supplies in the School of Medicine parking lot.

Giving their all

Community members, local companies, philanthropists, students and alumni have rallied around UCI Health with donations of funds and personal protective equipment

June 01, 2020

UCI Podcast: The race for COVID testing

In March, the UCI Medical Center became the first hospital in Orange County to provide COVID-19 testing. In the UCI Podcast, Dr. Ed Monuki, chair of pathology who leads UCI Health’s testing efforts, discusses how the campus came together to address this community need and how future testing for the coronavirus and its antibodies will […]

May 27, 2020

Med students make do - and then some

Graduating class faces curtailed rotations, crises of confidence and commencement questions with grace, generosity and ingenuity

May 26, 2020

Dr. Peter Chang, a UCI Health neuroradiologist who designed the algorithm and is co-director of UCI’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine said "In the course of just a month or so, we’ve gotten the data, built the model, tested it on some cohorts and launched it on a website.”

Predicting a patient's path

UCI-developed machine learning tool aids doctors’ decision-making

May 21, 2020

Dr. Sahar Osman, a neurocritical care fellow in UCI Medical Center’s neurological ICU. “With the coronavirus pandemic, everybody’s going through a universal trauma of sorts.”

Making a critical connection

Dr. Sahar Osman uses video calls to keep families in contact with hospitalized loved ones during COVID-19 lockdown

May 18, 2020

Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center to host expert discussion on COVID-19

EVENT: UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy have partnered to host a panel of experts discussing COVID-19. Four experts will address four topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic in everyday terms for the non-scientific community. As society begins to reopen, these four topics […]

May 12, 2020

Ilhem Messaoudi, professor of molecular biology & biochemistry, (pictured in her lab) is part of a UCI research team using a CRAFT-COVID grant to study the prevalence of undetected COVID-19 among healthcare providers at the UCI Medical Center.