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May 26, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Rising Stars Driven by Collaboration & Community
Crystal M. Glover, PhD, and Ryan Gibney, MD, were honored at a May 13 luncheon as recipients of the Spring 2026 Rising Stars award, in recognition of their impactful collaborations to advance high-quality care.
May 21, 2026 | Mindbodygreen
Could This Be the Real Reason Women Struggle More with Migraines?
“What we find when we think about estrogen and brain health is that things are a bit more complex than we thought would be. And that is kind of a tough message,” says Tallie Z. Baram MD, PhD, a distinguished professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine. … When it comes to migraines, Baram says “Data suggests that the combination of high estrogen levels and stress is not great.”
May 21, 2026 | The Orange County Register
Researchers at UCI want to build biggest database ever on Asian American health
Sunmin Lee, ScD, hopes the ASPIRE Cohort helps unravel some mysterious and troubling links between cancer and race.
May 20, 2026 | NPR
The Loh Down on Science
For centuries, Native American communities used conifer trees to treat pain, weakness, and even paralysis. Could this traditional knowledge hold real medical power? Enter Alvin Yu and team from UC Irvine. They studied a rare genetic disorder, Episodic Ataxia Type One.
May 20, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
The School of Medicine Announces 2026 Robert & Sylvia Mapel Research Innovation Awardees
Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD, and Eleonora Risaliti, are this year's Robert & Sylvia Mapel Research Innovation awardees, with their research project, “Prime Editing VEGF-A: A Durable Genomic Therapy for Neovascular AMD."
Informatics Students Partner with Pediatrics Professor to Gamify Sleep-Loss Test
UC Irvine Students from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences worked with Katharine Simon, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, to gamify a sleep-loss test for children and teens.
UC Irvine School of Medicine Research Insider
May 19, 2026
May 19, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
MD/PhD Student Bianca Leonard Honored for Excellence in Health for the Latino Community
At UC Irvine’s ninth annual Latine Excellence and Achievement Award Dinner (LEAD), Bianca Leonard, PhD, was honored for graduate student excellence in health at the intersection of neuroscience and mental health.
May 18, 2026 | Everyday Health
8 Daily Rituals to Help You Manage Hereditary Angioedema (HAE)
Building stress busters into your day can help you feel more levelheaded all while potentially keeping attacks at bay, says Donald Levy, MD, an allergist and immunologist with UCI Health in Irvine, California. … “Excessive anything can bring on an HAE attack,” says Dr. Levy, including extreme temperatures, sun exposure, and sweating on a very hot day
May 18, 2026 | Neuroscience News
Parkinson's Drug Restores Memories in Alzheimer's
Imagine if patients with Alzheimer’s could have their memories restored. Such a future may seem like a pipe dream, but a new study by researchers at Tohoku University, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, has identified dopamine dysfunction as a previously unrecognized mechanism underlying memory impairment, unlocking a potential therapeutic means of reversing cognitive decline.