Press Releases

Study highlights success, challenges of Orange County’s stroke care system

Orange County system created to improve emergency stroke care takes patients to the hospitals most prepared to treat stroke. UC Irvine stroke neurologist Steven Cramer, MD, analyzes success.

UCI-led study uncovers how salmonella avoids the body’s immune response

UC Irvine researchers have discovered how salmonella, a bacterium found in contaminated raw foods that causes major gastrointestinal distress in humans, thrives in the digestive tract despite the immune system’s best efforts to destroy it.

UCI Nobel Laureate F. Sherwood Rowland passes away at 84

Renowned chemist and founding faculty member discovered that aerosol propellants were creating a hole in Earth’s ozone layer.

Blocking natural, marijuana-like chemical in the brain boosts fat burning

Stop exercising, eat as much as you want … and still lose weight? It sounds impossible, but UC Irvine and Italian researchers have found that by blocking a natural, marijuana-like chemical regulating energy metabolism, this can happen, at least in the lab.

UC Irvine Healthcare promotes colorectal cancer awareness

UC Irvine’s Dr. Michael J. Stamos says the nation’s second-leading cause of cancer death is preventable, treatable and curable.

TEDxUCIrvine set for March 3

Local version of TED conference focuses on science and art in an evolving society.

UC Irvine creates annual lectureship in honor of Dr. Marianne Cinat

Cinat honored for her skill and compassion as a trauma and critical care surgeon. She was director of the UC Irvine Regional Burn Center in Orange, Calif.

UCI Care-a-thon to keep participants dancing for six hours

Proceeds from fundraiser will go to UC Irvine Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit.

Gases drawn into smog particles stay there, UCI-led study reveals

Airborne gases get sucked into stubborn smog particles from which they cannot escape, according to findings by UC Irvine and other researchers published Feb. 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

UCI leads multicampus collaboration to reward use of designated drivers

Health Education Center wins second grant to expand DUI awareness program from nine college campuses to 13.