Participants in April 9 event will tour UC Irvine Douglas Hospital, shadow physicians on their patient rounds, and speak with doctors and med students about careers in healthcare.
Dr. Edward Nelson described to Elizabeth Blackburn, winner of the 2009 prize for physiology & medicine, his research on accelerated telomere shortening caused by chronic stress.
Student group arranges series of events, including a roundtable discussion, “How to Improve Transit,” and an Orange County Transportation Authority demo bus.
The sixth annual event, on April 1 and 2 at the Student Center, is the first held at a West Coast campus.
Work by the Distinguished Professor of ecology & evolutionary biology explores plants, fish and invertebrate animals that reproduce as male and female simultaneously or switch between one gender and the other.
The Donald Bren Professor of Medicine and co-executive director of UCI’s Health Policy Research Institute chaired an Institute of Medicine committee that issued two reports March 23: “Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust” and “Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews.”
The funds will be used to develop a nanoscale imaging microscope capable of observing single-cell migration in vivo, which could provide new insight into how cancer cells metastasize in humans.
Researchers with the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) have discovered how a novel compound can reduce the accumulation of brain plaques seen in Alzheimer’s disease without the side effects produced by any current drugs used for the chronic neurodegenerative disease.
Humanities’ literary criticism program holds top spot in US News & World Report’s annual ranking.
Study led by physiology & biophysics professor Todd C. Holmes identifies a second form of phototransduction – this one derived from vitamin B2 rather than vitamin A.