KEYWORD

cancer

Change agent

Newly minted Ph.D. Deborah Lefkowitz is dedicated to solving real-world problems via community-engaged research

Claudia Benavente is awarded a $2.1 million NCI grant to combat childhood bone cancer

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 […]

Study touts new method to reduce cognitive side effects of brain cancer radiation treatment

UCI team helps uncover how ‘FLASH radiotherapy’ reduces neural cell damage

Redefining the world of cancer

New grants and studies give UCI researchers the chance to make a profound difference

UCI chemistry professor Greg Weiss riding a bike

Registration opens for third annual UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge

Ride, run and walk event to benefit cancer research returns to Irvine campus June 8

The art of healthy persuasion

UCI researcher creates videos and messages to boost vaccination rates and cancer screenings

Taking on tumors

UCI Ph.D. student wins Public Impact Distinguished Fellowship for her efforts to develop a cancer vaccine

New immunotherapy technique can specifically target tumor cells, UCI study reports

“Lab on a chip” technology can be used to create individualized treatments for cancer

School of Medicine research team is awarded $3.4 million Cancer Moonshot initiative grant

UCI School of Medicine researchers have been awarded a $3.4 million grant by the National Cancer Institute as part of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot initiative. The funding will support efforts to provide proof of principal data for an entirely new class of cancer-killing immunotherapeutics with the potential to treat highly diverse types of cancer, […]

Looking at cancer in a whole new way

UCI moves to the national forefront by taking an interdisciplinary systems biology approach to the devastating disease