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Professor gets prestigious BRAIN Initiative grant

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Xiangmin Xu, UCI associate professor of anatomy & neurobiology, a five-year, $2.5 million grant to study new neural circuit pathways in a region of the brain associated with learning and memory and epilepsy. He shares the grant with Douglas Arthur Nitz of UC San Diego. The proposed research […]

UCI logs second-highest research funding total in fiscal 2016-17

$378 million in grants, contracts reflects strong support for campus mission

$9.6 million grant fuels UCI malaria control research in Africa

Major federal funding establishes campus as international center of excellence

4 students in Minority Science Programs snag research awards at annual meeting of AAAS

Four UCI undergraduates participating in the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences’ Minority Science Programs received awards for their research presentations in the poster competition at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences’ 2017 annual meeting, in Boston. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society. The research poster competition is open to undergraduate and […]

Study of Twitter-based smoking cessation program gets $2.5 million from NIH

With a $2.5 million continuation grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cornelia Pechmann, professor of marketing at UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business, and Judith J. Prochaska, associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, will advance their research on a Twitter-based smoking intervention program. Their most recent study found that participants in Tweet2Quit were twice as successful […]

Looking beyond stroke

Language model developed by UCI cognitive scientist could aid survivors with impaired communication skills

Dr. Moyra Smith

Making research relevant

Institute for Clinical & Translational Science is committed to transforming ideas into medical reality