Research

Alexandre Chan

UCI-led team helps standardize collection, reporting of wearable activity trackers' data

Recommendations provide framework for use of such devices in medical research studies

UCI receives renewal of designation as Huntington's Disease Society of America Center of Excellence

Renewal recognizes UCI’s dedication to patient care and active engagement in research to develop new therapeutic approaches

UCI team uncovers key brain mechanisms for organizing memories in time

Convergence research project integrated neurobiology with data science techniques

Tom Andriola and Leslie Thompson

UCI announces launch of Institute for Precision Health

Individually tailored wellness approach is giant leap in patient control, improved outcomes

UCI Institute for Precision Health FAQ

What is precision health? Precision health is a powerful approach that uses data science to help prevent disease and accurately predict, diagnose and treat individual patients as is best for them. Its practitioners employ data – information about patients – and analytics to provide more exact and effective health plans. Precision health is also a […]

Behind a good mutation: How a gene variant protects against Alzheimer's

UCI study provides first evidence about how this protective mutation may reduce disease risk

UCI scientists discover how galaxies can exist without dark matter

In simulations, collisions cause smaller star groupings to lose material

UCI study links air pollution, adverse ovarian function in female mice

A type of air pollution known as fine particulate matter or PM2.5, can cause loss of ovarian function in female mice, due to depleted primordial, primary and secondary follicles, according to a recent study led by Ulrike Luderer, MD, Ph.D., UCI professor of environmental and occupational health and corresponding author. Premature ovarian failure, often called […]

UCI, UC Riverside astronomers discover galactic protocluster in early universe

Researchers surprised to find that many of the galaxies had stopped forming new stars

National Academy of Engineers names two UCI professors as new members

Farzad Naeim and Julie Schoenung recognized for their scientific contributions