Complex health considerations make reopening California’s schools a challenge

Edsource Today, June 8, 2020

Dr. Dan Cooper, UCI professor of pediatrics and founding director of the campus’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

Back-to-school jitters

UCI Health pediatrician Dan Cooper gathers a team to help determine how, when and under what conditions K-12 classroom instruction can safely resume

UCI team to play key role in national study on how physical activity benefits child health

Identifying exercise-driven molecular changes could enhance long-term well-being

Making sense of microbiomes

UCI biochemist studies the effect of unique virus, bacteria and fungi on kids’ health

Dan Cooper

UCI’s Institute for Clinical & Translational Science gets $19 million from NIH

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 26, 2015 — The Institute for Clinical & Translational Science at the University of California, Irvine will receive $19 million over four years from the National Institutes of Health to continue speeding the transformation of scientific discoveries into medical advances for patients. The grant is a continuation of the Clinical & Translational […]

The bridge builder

Since joining UC Irvine in 2007 to launch the nursing science program, Ellen Olshansky has flourished as a highly respected county leader for community-based research and women’s health policy. And much of it started at her kitchen table five years ago. There, in her University Hills home, Olshansky brought together Susan Bryant and Karol Gottfredson […]

Students playing basketball

Explaining exercise

New campus initiative fosters interdisciplinary study of how physical activity promotes good health.

Dr. Moyra Smith

Making research relevant

Institute for Clinical & Translational Science is committed to transforming ideas into medical reality

Dan Cooper

Motion promotion

UCI center explores, extols health benefits of exercise in childhood

Alvin Viray

Patents pending

They call it “the baby monitor,” but it’s nothing like the ones sold at Babies “R” Us that alert parents when junior’s crying in his crib. Developed by UC Irvine pediatrics professor Dr. Dan Cooper, the sophisticated wireless device can detect subtle movements in infants that signal increased risk of cerebral palsy, autism and other neurological […]