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medicine

UCI’s Kalpna Gupta

Cannabis shows potential for mitigating sickle cell disease pain

Clinical trial co-led by UCI professor is first of its kind to use gold-standard methods

Thomas Milner, the new director of UCI’s Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic

Inventive medicine

Optics innovator Thomas Milner is back at UCI as director of the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic

Epidemiology professor Karen Edwards, department of Public Health Steve Zylius / UCI

What’s next: The future of summer vacation

UCI epidemiologist offers advice on healthy travel, recreation during the pandemic

Dr. Dan Cooper is a UCI professor of pediatrics and founding director of the campus’s Institute for Clinical & Translational Science

Caution urged for reopening schools to prevent spread of COVID-19 crisis

Large-scale testing of children, expansion of school-based health centers recommended

Beckman Laser Institute receives Air Force funding for wounded warriors project

Renewed grant of $6.8 million to aid in development of optics-based trauma treatments

Phil Felgner, director of UCI’s Vaccine R&D Center, gazing through a window

Blood will tell

UCI researchers create coronavirus microarray test to determine true prevalence of COVID-19 infection and gauge antibody responses

Med students make do – and then some

Graduating class faces curtailed rotations, crises of confidence and commencement questions with grace, generosity and ingenuity

Dr. Peter Chang, a UCI Health neuroradiologist who designed the algorithm and is co-director of UCI’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine said "In the course of just a month or so, we’ve gotten the data, built the model, tested it on some cohorts and launched it on a website.”

Predicting a patient’s path

UCI-developed machine learning tool aids doctors’ decision-making

Ilhem Messaoudi, professor of molecular biology & biochemistry, (pictured in her lab) is part of a UCI research team using a CRAFT-COVID grant to study the prevalence of undetected COVID-19 among healthcare providers at the UCI Medical Center.

Fast-tracked funding

To expedite campus response to pandemic, UCI leadership amasses $2.5 million for COVID-19 research projects

Healthcare worker attending to hospital patient.

Tu Foundation gives $2.5 million to UCI to support COVID-19 patient care, research

Funding allows campus to ramp up lifesaving treatments, testing and discoveries