The Alzheimer's crunch
With jump in patients expected, new leader of clinical research operations at UCI MIND aims to accelerate translation of discoveries into effective treatments
November 22, 2019
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clinical trials
UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Science receives $24 million NIH grant
Funding continues campus effort to speed scientific discoveries into medical advances
September 05, 2019
Leslie Thompson gets $6 million CIRM grant to advance Huntington's disease treatments
Leslie Thompson of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and UCI MIND has been awarded $6 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to continue her CIRM-supported efforts to create stem cell treatments for Huntington’s disease. The funding will allow the Thompson lab to conduct the late-stage testing needed to apply […]
January 30, 2019
FDA greenlights UCI clinical trial of treatment for blinding disease
A first-of-its-kind stem cell-based treatment for retinitis pigmentosa developed by UC Irvine’s Dr. Henry Klassen, Dr. Jing Yang and colleagues has received consent from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for use in a clinical trial.
May 07, 2015
Progress and promise
During the first week of October, the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center will sponsor events highlighting UCI’s progress in this promising area.
October 03, 2011
Overcoming ovarian cancer
UCI’s gynecologic oncology group forges what is being called the largest breakthrough for treating ovarian cancer in more than a decade.
July 06, 2010