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Dr. Richard Lee, interim chief of UCI Health’s Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine principal investigator for the Aviptadil clinical trial.

UCI to take part in clinical trial of drug for critically ill COVID-19 patients

Aviptadil could save people suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome

Ilhem Messaoudi, professor of molecular biology & biochemistry, (pictured in her lab) is part of a UCI research team using a CRAFT-COVID grant to study the prevalence of undetected COVID-19 among healthcare providers at the UCI Medical Center.

Fast-tracked funding

To expedite campus response to pandemic, UCI leadership amasses $2.5 million for COVID-19 research projects

Healthcare worker attending to hospital patient.

Tu Foundation gives $2.5 million to UCI to support COVID-19 patient care, research

Funding allows campus to ramp up lifesaving treatments, testing and discoveries

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UCI Podcast Video Series: Attacking the coronavirus where it replicates – safely

In this episode of the UCI Podcast Video Series, Rachel Martin, UCI professor of chemistry, discusses a project in her lab that centers on finding a way to block the ability of the coronavirus to make copies of itself once it’s inside the human body. Martin highlights that the project, which involves postdoctoral scholars, Ph.D. […]

Microorganisms in parched regions extract needed water from colonized rocks

Interdisciplinary UCI-led team is first to demonstrate long-suspected survival strategy

Ellen Druffel elected to National Academy of Sciences

UCI Earth system science professor is an expert in the ocean carbon cycle

NSF grant funds study of partisanship’s effect on health behaviors during coronavirus crisis

Sara Wallace Goodman, UCI associate professor of political science, has received a $53,030 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how partisanship affects individual health behaviors in response to the  COVID-19 pandemic. In March and April, Goodman and her team conducted a survey that coincided with the first peak incidences and lockdown orders in […]

coronavirus (pictured)

UCI launches comprehensive COVID-19 resource site

oc-covid19.org to engage community with informative, helpful content

Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, UCI astronomers say

Findings may change fundamental thinking about star system formation, dynamics

UCI team develops smartphone application for coronavirus contact tracing

Technology anonymously notifies users of potential exposure to COVID-19