KEYWORD

healthcare

John Chaput

UC Irvine-led team engineers new enzyme to produce synthetic genetic material

Discovery advances development of new therapeutic options for cancer and other diseases

UC Irvine grad student training program aims to broaden access to cardiovascular care

New NSF-funded initiative emphasizes technological solutions to health disparities

Hands-on experience

Innovative summer camp at UC Irvine helps teens explore and prepare for nursing careers

Carla Vasquez Vergara. Smiling woman wearing a medical coat.

A journey rooted in community and purpose

New medical student Carla Vazquez Vergara says UC Irvine’s PRIME-LC program continues that path

Jonathan Watanabe, UC Irvine professor of clinical pharmacy practice and director of the campus’s Center for Data-Driven Drugs Research and Policy.

National Academies progress report: health disparities

Reducing diversity gaps in clinical trials is a societal imperative, according to UC Irvine professor

UC Irvine Institute for Clinical & Translational Science receives $28 million NIH grant

Funding continues campus efforts to speed scientific discoveries into medical advances

Nursing grad student Trang Truong

Finding her voice

Nursing student with speech disorder is determined to help disadvantaged patients be heard

Leigh Turner, director of UC Irvine’s Center for Health Ethics

Rethinking healthcare

Program in Public Health’s new Center for Health Ethics will explore issues, inform debates and propose policy solutions

Susanne Phillips

UC Irvine professor of nursing to receive national award for policy advocacy

Susanne Phillips has improved healthcare access, role of advanced practice RNs

An elderly woman who had never seen a physician in her life hugs Dr. Cristobal Barrios Jr. of UCI Health during his humanitarian visit to Ecuador last year.

Surgeon leads overseas medical missions to poor villages

UCI doctor most recently took a group of volunteers to Ecuador