pharmaceutical sciences

Sheryl Tsai serves both present and future as a groundbreaking scientist and as an award-winning professor.

UCI’s fledgling pharmaceutical sciences undergraduate program grows in popularity as the job market for drug discovery and pharmacy grows.

Mahtab Jafari’s research shows curry’s main ingredient has more to offer than good flavor. It extended the lifespan of fruit flies by up to 20 percent, while improving locomotion and having tumor-prevention properties.

The first time Fan-Gang Zeng invented a cochlear implant – a device he believed could help thousands regain lost hearing – things didn’t work out too well. The company that licensed his invention shelved the project. “Today, he says, “it benefits no one.” The hard lesson – that most inventions never reach the consumer – […]