KEYWORD

stem cells

Craig Walsh, UCI professor of molecular biology and biochemistry

UC Irvine advances stem cell research with $4 million CIRM grant for shared resources lab

Funding will enable upgraded equipment, new services and user training in 4 critical areas

Quinton Smith

Boosting health equity with organ avatars

UCI engineer named one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 for using lab-grown blood vessels to benefit marginalized groups

Leigh Turner, UCI Professor of Public Health

UC Irvine study exposes risks of direct-to-consumer stem cell, exosome COVID-19 therapy ads

More than 75 percent of clinics operated by these businesses are in U.S. and Mexico

Baruch D. Kupperman, director of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute

A decade of visionary achievement

UCI’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute celebrates its 10th anniversary

Aileen Anderson, director of UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center.

UC Irvine named one of CIRM’s cell and gene therapy manufacturing facilities

$2 million state grant allows campus stem cell center to advance regenerative medicine

Maksim Plikus

UC Irvine-led researchers reveal new molecular mechanism for stimulating hair growth

Findings may offer road map for next generation of therapies for androgenetic alopecia

Lisa Flanagan

UC Irvine research team identifies glycosylation enzyme critical in brain formation

Findings may contribute to new therapeutic uses for neural stem cells

UCI earns designation as CIRM Alpha Clinic with five-year, $8 million grant

Campus will launch micronetwork focused on expanding stem cell clinical trial access

UCI-led team discovers signaling molecule that potently stimulates hair growth

SCUBE3 identified as possible therapeutic treatment for androgenetic alopecia

Jesse Colin Jackson presented his installation Marching Cubes Final Countdown in the Experimental Media Performance Lab in Feb. 2022. He invited visitors to help assemble a series of sculptures based on Henry Moore’s monumental forms.

The art of inquiry

Claire Trevor School of the Arts puts research center stage