Medicine

In the spirit of UCI’s forward-thinking founders, campus researchers see beyond the present to create a brilliant future

National Institute on Aging grants $4.7 million to Dr. Ira Lott’s research team

UCI mouse study finds significant improvements in both motor and cognitive function

UCI brain-computer interface enables paraplegic man to take historic steps

EVENT: What kind of art would journalists’ brain waves produce? Put your gray matter to the test in a preview demonstration of “My Virtual Dream,” a multisensory experience to be featured by UCI’s Department of Neurology and School of Medicine at the 50th Anniversary Festival of Discovery. WHEN/WHERE:   4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, in UCI’s Aldrich Park (F7 […]

UCI’s Dr. Petra Wilder-Smith has pioneered the use of laser technology to noninvasively detect and treat oral cancers

Ancient Chinese practice lowers blood pressure, may lessen stroke, heart disease risks

Participants are sought for safety study on the use of retinal progenitors in the eye

As head of the county’s largest hospital and only medical school, Howard Federoff has his finger on the pulse of the vast UC Irvine Health enterprise

By identifying in spinal fluid how the characteristic mutant proteins of Huntington’s disease spread from cell to cell, UC Irvine scientists and colleagues have created a new method to quickly and accurately track the presence and proliferation of these neuron-damaging compounds – a discovery that may accelerate the development of new drugs to treat this incurable disease.