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Wendell Brase

Wendell Brase wins 2023 I2SL Phil Wirdzek Leadership Award

Honor recognizes UCI’s pioneering role in energy-efficient laboratory operations

UC Irvine health psychologist Julian F. Thayer elected to National Academy of Medicine

Distinction recognizes his contributions to understanding of stress and disease, aging

UC Irvine alum receives 2023 MacArthur “genius grant”

A. Park Williams to use funding to study climate change and its connection to droughts, wildfires

Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine cites UCI’s Philip Felgner

Vaccine Research & Development Center director noted for contribution to mRNA vaccines

NIH funds UC Irvine project to measure the severity of heart valve backflow

Support originated by Congressman who lost his wife to sudden cardiac death

Jo and Paul Butterworth.

Alumni couple Paul and Jo Butterworth to receive UC Irvine’s Extraordinarius award

Philanthropists will be among 24 honorees at Lauds & Laurels event

Carnegie Corporation recognizes Kyriacos Athanasiou as a ‘Great Immigrant’

Originally from Cyprus, the biomedical engineer came to UC Irvine in 2017

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Anai Campos Contreras named 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences

The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Anai Campos Contreras, incoming UC Irvine postdoctoral fellow in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, a 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences. Campos received a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 2022 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Later this summer, she will join the laboratory of Thomas Martinez, […]

UCI’s 2023-24 Hellman Fellows are (top row, from left) Diu-Huong Nguyen, Nicole Iturriaga, Cyrian Reed and Christopher Miles, as well as (bottom row, from left) Stacy Copp, Salvador Zárate, Herdeline Ardoña and Alexandra Voloshina.

8 UC Irvine faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2023-24

Grant program supports research by promising assistant professors

Héctor Tobar (left) and Roland Betancourt.

Héctor Tobar and Roland Betancourt are named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows

UC Irvine scholars are among 171 recipients of the prestigious award