Press Releases

UCI cardiologists offer patients safer, more comfortable angioplasty option

They lead effort to train other physicians in radial artery catheterization.

Body’s natural marijuana-like chemicals make fatty foods hard to resist

UC Irvine researchers found that dietary fats may trigger a surprising biological mechanism that drives gluttonous behavior. The apparent culprit? Chemicals in the body called endocannabinoids.

UCI recruiting subjects for study on preterm birth among first-time mothers

Findings could help prevent prematurity, reduce infant mortality, cut healthcare costs.

UCI, French researchers find master switch for adult epilepsy

Study identifies central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the way to both treat and prevent temporal lobe epilepsy.

UCI's efforts to reduce carbon recognized

Honor rewards operations, curriculum and research designed to mitigate climate change.

UCI names top scholarship winners

Scholarship Opportunities Program mentors applicants to success.

American Heart Association rates UCI 'platinum' on fitness

Campus honored for success in decreasing healthcare expenses, increasing productivity.

$10 million gift to support UCI research

Donation will support the campus’s top scientists and their transformational research, as well as help with construction of a new building in The Paul Merage School of Business.

UCI, Angels team up for summer blood drives to benefit trauma patients, newborns

UC Irvine Healthcare and Angels Baseball are partnering in a series of blood drives at Angel Stadium this summer to increase the supply for people in need at Orange County’s only Level I trauma center.

UCI researchers find link between environment and genetics in triggering MS

Environmental and inherited risk factors associated with multiple sclerosis – previously poorly understood and not known to be connected – converge to alter a critical cellular function linked to the chronic neurologic disease, researchers with the UC Irvine Multiple Sclerosis Research Center have discovered.