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health

AI in the ER

UCI center designs artificial intelligence systems to speed critical diagnoses

Study of scarless wound healing goes digital with 5-year, $3.3 million NIH grant to UCI trio

Wound healing is a complex process that involves intricate interplay among multiple skin and immune cell types. When optimal conditions are achieved, wounds can heal by true regeneration, when new hairs and new adipose tissue re-form. However, more commonly, optimal conditions cannot be achieved, and wounds heal by making scars. To help foster true regeneration, […]

UCI-led study reveals communication among organs, tissues regulating body’s energy

First-ever ‘atlas’ of circadian metabolism shows how disruptions may lead to disease

Mother’s teenage smoking habit is key risk factor for low-birth-weight baby, UCI-led study finds

Such adverse natal outcomes are linked to intergenerational health, socioeconomic disadvantages

Richard J. Gannotta

Richard J. Gannotta tapped to head UCI Health

Seasoned national executive takes helm of top-ranked research hospital

UCI calls for volunteers as NIH’s landmark $1.5 billion precision medicine research effort launches nationwide

Irvine, Calif., May 1, 2018 — The All of Us Research Program opens for national enrollment Sunday, May 6. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living in the United States. […]

Nursing professor to study fitness therapies with grant from National Institute on Aging

Lorraine Evangelista, professor and interim associate dean of Academic & Student Affairs in the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, was awarded an exploratory/developmental research grant by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging (R21AG053162) for her study entitled, “Fitness Intensive Therapy (Get FIT) to Promote Healthy Living in Older Adults.” The award […]

UCI study sheds light on regulation of hair growth across the entire body

Findings point to new ways of addressing human baldness, unwanted hair

School spirit

Nursing faculty, staff and students celebrate program’s elevated status

Three questions with Adey Nyamathi

Founding dean of nursing is focused on building a top-tier school