UCI officially launched its Brilliant Future philanthropic campaign on Oct. 4, 2019, with a goal of raising $2 billion to fund scientific research, provide scholarships for students, advance healthcare innovations, and foster deeper explorations into our shared human experience. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, host Tom Vasich delves into the campaign with one […]
Campaign co-chair credits cancer center for remarkable recovery
UCI Health applies ‘game changing’ technology to improve screening
Radiation therapy is one of the most widely used cancer treatments, but a drawback of the procedure is that it can cause collateral damage to healthy tissue in proximity to cancerous growths. Identifying organs at risk via CT scans is a difficult and labor-intensive process, but UCI computer scientists and researchers from other institutions have […]
New, safer approach using engineered stem cells could reduce need for chemotherapy
Event proceeds will expand research on prevention, diagnosis and treatment
Project is supported by $4 million grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Newly minted Ph.D. Deborah Lefkowitz is dedicated to solving real-world problems via community-engaged research
Claudia Benavente, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and developmental & cell biology at UCI, has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a novel therapeutic treatment for osteosarcoma. Her research aims to explain the role of the chromatin remodeling protein UHRF1 as a potential target in the treatment of […]
UCI team helps uncover how ‘FLASH radiotherapy’ reduces neural cell damage