UCI child neurologist Dr. Tallie Z. Baram is awarded $15 million Conte Center grant
NIH funding supports continued research into early-life origins of mental disorders
July 10, 2019
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UCI team pioneers cancer treatment that targets bone metastases while sparing bone
New, safer approach using engineered stem cells could reduce need for chemotherapy
July 08, 2019
UCI research helps shed new light on circadian clocks
Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain, studies show
May 30, 2019
Assistant professor gets grant to crowdsource an online mental health intervention platform
Stephen Schueller, assistant professor of psychological science, has been awarded a three-year, $680,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop and evaluate a crowdsourced anxiety and depression intervention platform. Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining input from large numbers of people via the internet. The project will increase understanding of various problems […]
May 16, 2019
UCI to establish skin biology, diseases resource center with $4 million NIH award
Grant will accelerate, enhance the effectiveness of basic, translational and clinical research
April 22, 2019
UCI engineers aim to pioneer tissue-engineering approach to TMJ disorders
Solutions have been hampered by past failures, proximity of jaw joint to brain
March 20, 2019
UCI leads NIH-funded study of education’s effects on healthy transitions to adulthood
UCI faculty members Andrew Penner, associate professor of sociology; Emily Penner, assistant professor of education; and Paul Hanselman, assistant professor of sociology, are co-principal investigators on a study examining the relationship between education and childrens’ healthy transitions to adulthood. “This project assesses how exposure to different courses and teachers shapes students’ futures: their labor market […]
September 17, 2018
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, […]
September 10, 2018
UCI awarded $9 million federal grant to gauge long-term effects of cannabis on adolescents
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded the UCI School of Medicine a four-year, $9 million grant aimed at determining the long-term impact of cannabis exposure on the adolescent brain. Led by Daniele Piomelli, professor of anatomy & neurobiology and director of the newly created UCI Center […]
July 30, 2018
Looking at cancer in a whole new way
UCI moves to the national forefront by taking an interdisciplinary systems biology approach to the devastating disease
June 06, 2018