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UCI's vice chancellor for student affairs to speak in Santa Ana

Oct. 18 appearance at Santa Ana Valley High School is part of UC effort emphasizing that college is attainable.

UCI garners $11.5 million in continued support of systems biology center

The award provides five years of additional support to the biologists, mathematicians, physicists, engineers and computer scientists who collaborate in pursuit of a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of complex biological systems.

UC Irvine gets $1 million to combat elder abuse

UC Irvine’s Program in Geriatrics will use federal grant for pilot program to preventing the abuse of people with dementia, called Take AIM Against Elder Abuse.

UC Irvine opens clinical trial of novel treatment for brain cancer

Experiemental vaccines hold promise to slow the return of glioblastoma multiforme. UC Irvine begins enrolling patients in DCVax trial.

Chronic kidney disease alters intestinal microbial flora

UC Irvine study patients with renal failure experienced changes the composition of intestinal bacterial microbes that are crucial to staving off disease-causing pathogens and maintaining micronutrient balance.

New research model to aid search for degenerative disease cures

Efforts to treat disorders like Lou Gehrig’s disease, Paget’s disease, inclusion body myopathy and dementia will receive a considerable boost from a new research model created by UC Irvine scientists.

Study points to potential for improvement in the care, quality of life of epilepsy patients

Epilepsy review by UC Irvine neurologist and colleagues shows that identification and treatment of psychiatric, cognitive and social comorbidities is necessary to enhance quality of care and quality of life.

Boosting natural marijuana-like brain chemicals treats fragile X syndrome symptoms

UC Irvine and European scientists have found that increasing natural marijuana-like chemicals in the brain can help correct behavioral issues related to fragile X syndrome, the most common known genetic cause of autism.

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UC Irvine professor among Popular Science's ‘Brilliant 10' young scientists of 2012

Deva Ramanan is lauded for work boosting computers’ image recognition capabilities.