physiology & biophysics

Discovery offers insights into retinal disease origins and potential therapeutic targets

Findings will increase understanding of vaccine immune responses and side effects

Philip Felgner shares annual award for contributions to creation of mRNA vaccines

Stephen H. White, a professor of physiology & biophysics in the UCI School of Medicine since 1973, has co-authored a book that he calls the culmination of his career. Cell Boundaries (Garland Science, 2021) was 13 years in the making and describes how membranes and their proteins work. White and his collaborators, Gunnar von Heijne, […]

Philip Felgner is one of seven honored for contributions to designing COVID-19 vaccines

Common tumor inhibitor drug triggers favorable and unfavorable immune effects

Professor Geoffrey Abbott discusses the molecular mechanism behind some botanical folk medicines

UCI School of Medicine researcher Geoff Abbott, professor of physiology & biophysics, is the recipient of a $2 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35 grant) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and a $1.7 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The five-year grants help enable studies focused […]

Physiology & biophysics professor Todd Holmes has received a five-year, $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study how insects process short-wavelength light in the ultraviolet-through-blue spectral range. This work builds on research from the Holmes lab published over the past few years in Science, Nature and […]

First real-time imaging of intact circadian neural networks shows how light shifts disrupt biological clocks