UC Irvine gets $2 million from W.M. Keck Foundation to further research in chemistry and microbiology

UC Irvine has received $2 million from the prestigious W.M. Keck Foundation to advance research in chemistry and microbiology.

Three UC Irvine researchers named microbiology fellows

Francisco Ayala, Bert Semler and Rozanne Sandri-Goldin (pictured) have been chosen fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology, the highest…

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

Hamid Jafarkhani (left), Chancellor’s Professor of electrical engineering & computer science, and Jianhua Yu, professor of medicine, hematology & oncology.

Two UC Irvine researchers named fellows by National Academy of Inventors

Hamid Jafarkhani and Jianhua Yu recognized for beneficial innovations

Dr. Roger Mah (son), Dr. Robert A. Mah, Dr. Adeline Yen Mah, Chancellor Howard Gillman, Lucy Mah-Klein (granddaughter) and Christopher Klein (son-in-law), from left to right, participate at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building on April 24, 2023.

Adeline and Robert Mah donate another $20 million toward Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building

Gift to advance molecular innovation, vaccine development centers

The UCI School of Medicine team members who helped develop new viral vectors that will advance neural circuit mapping include, from left, front row: Michele Wu, Alexis Bouin, Ginny Wu, Qiao Ye and Xiangmin Xu; back row: Todd Holmes, Bert Semler, Orkide Koyuncu and Liqi Tong.

UC Irvine-led research team creates novel rabies viral vectors for neural circuit mapping

New tools can detect microstructural changes in aging and Alzheimer’s disease brain neurons

Elizabeth Hafen ’22 is currently in Madrid, researching Spain’s immigration policies, as part of the Fulbright Program.

Making a global difference

Anteaters have been involved with the Fulbright Program for three decades

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UCI awarded $3.8 million NIH grant to advance BRAIN Initiative research

Funding will help campus become a national center of neuroscience resources

Luis Cuevas, B.S., biochemistry and molecular biology

#IamUCI - Luis Cuevas

Q&A with Class of 2023 graduate Luis Cuevas, B.S., biochemistry and molecular biology

A cellophane bee on a plant.

UC Irvine biologists discover bees to be brew masters of the insect world

New study sheds light on the subterranean microbreweries of ground-nesting bees