Third-year microbiology and immunology student Ritwik Kumar researches bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria, not human cells.

An antibiotic alternative

In first at UC Irvine, undergrad will use bacteriophages to treat patients with resistant infections

Left to right: Anne Marie Clemons-Thomas, V. Gordon Clemons Jr., M.B.A. ’04, and Marie Clemons stand in front of the Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building, which will feature a terrace named after their family foundation.

Clemons Family Foundation donates $11 million to support advanced cancer research

Gift will also aid medical innovation building construction and UCI Health – Irvine

UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman standing at a podium with a UCI Brilliant Future sign on the front.

UC Irvine's Brilliant Future campaign surpasses $2 billion goal ahead of schedule

Setting a historic milestone for Orange County, effort continues till October 2025

Alec Glasser, here speaking with a few of the Glasser Scholars during a recent meeting at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Scaling social solutions

Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change empowers individuals and communities

Maksim Plikus (right), UC Irvine professor of developmental and cell biology, shown here with Raul Ramos, a postdoctoral researcher in the Plikus laboratory.

UC Irvine-led discovery of new skeletal tissue advances regenerative medicine potential

‘Lipocartilage’ properties akin to bubbled packaging material – super-stable, soft, springy

Woman wearing glasses

Nursing professor champions wellness to combat burnout

Nancy Pike is lead author of AHA paper on key well-being strategies

Year in Review collage

2024: A year in motion

Looking back at UC Irvine’s transformative impact

Cash transfers linked to improved educational outcomes for American Indian children

UC Irvine-led study highlights intergenerational benefits of financial support for families

PRIME-LC turns 20

Alumni doctors share their memories of the influential medical education program

John Chaput

UC Irvine-led team engineers new enzyme to produce synthetic genetic material

Discovery advances development of new therapeutic options for cancer and other diseases