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T regulatory cells (green with red nuclei) interact with antigen-presenting cells (magenta) in a tumor (blue). The Treg cell on top is activated (green fluorescence in the nucleus), while the one at the bottom is not (green fluorescence outside the nucleus). Activation of Treg cells promotes tumor growth.

UCI-led study finds that cancer immunotherapy may self-limit its efficacy

Common tumor inhibitor drug triggers favorable and unfavorable immune effects

UCI researchers win $2 million NIH grant to develop biologic implant for spinal facet joints

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2 million to researchers in UCI’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering to develop a biologic implant for the spinal facet joint. This grant, given to a team led by Kyriacos Athanasiou, Henry Samueli Chair in Engineering and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering, will be the first to focus […]

Pharmaceutical sciences researcher gets NIH award for drug discovery tech development

The National Institutes of Health has granted $2 million to researchers in UCI’s School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. The new Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award will fund drug discovery technology development in the laboratory of Brian Paegel, UCI professor of pharmaceutical sciences. “The NIH has generously supported my laboratory over the years in reaction miniaturization […]

Dr. Dan Cooper

UCI to lead transfer of UC COVID-19 patient information to federal database

Easily accessible, centralized records will facilitate further research into the disease

Kalpna Gupta, UCI Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hematology/ Oncology

Nutrition, companionship reduce pain in mice with sickle cell disease, UCI-led study finds

Serotonin-boosting antidepressant duloxetine had same effect, could be opioid alternative

UCI MIND awarded $14.4 million NIH grant to continue critical Alzheimer’s disease research, education

UCI MIND, the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders at UCI, has been awarded a $14.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, to sustain critical research and education as Orange County’s only Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The NIA funds only 32 of these centers at […]

UCI researchers quantify, characterize and identify functions of collagen, its subtypes

Found in cartilage, bones, blood vessels, skin and other connective tissues, collagens are the most abundant proteins by weight in the human body. In an article published recently in Nature Reviews Materials, UCI biomedical engineering researchers provide an exhaustive description of the superfamily of this biomaterial, which includes 28 subtypes. “Collagen – which has known connections […]

Jenny Yang, UCI associate professor of chemistry

UCI receives record $529 million in research funding for fiscal 2019-20

20 percent more than last year, the total reflects strong support for campus mission

Coronavirus Twitter map developed at UCI displays social media reactions to COVID-19

To give the public a sense of how social media conversations about COVID-19 are happening in real time, UCI computer scientists have developed and launched a coronavirus Twitter map. The interactive resource visualizes the spatial and temporal distribution of tweets related to the pandemic, allowing users to view the growth and transformation of social media […]

UCI researchers receive $3.5 million grant to study elderly with certain type of dementia

UCI School of Medicine researchers have been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a type of dementia, called hippocampal sclerosis, that often mimics Alzheimer’s disease. Led by Dr. Seyed Ahmad Sajjadi, assistant professor of neurology, the study will test the hypothesis that HS sufferers have more significant […]