Stopping Chronic Pain Before it Starts

UC Irvine researchers find that after an injury, support cells are temporarily rewired to trigger nerve cells to produce sticky beta-amyloid protein fragments best known for their role in Alzheimer’s disease.

UC Irvine School of Medicine Research Insider

September 1, 2026

New Data Infrastructure Award to Help Scientific Communities Build Domain-Specific Platforms for Collaborative Data Science and AI

Researchers at UC Irvine, UCLA and the University of Michigan have received nearly $9 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish a new data infrastructure capability that will help scientific communities across the nation use advanced data science and artificial intelligence tools.

UC Irvine School of Medicine Research Insider

August 25, 2026

Dean's News & Events Newsletter | 46th Edition

August 2026

Math and Medicine Join Forces to Solve a Cancer Mystery

UC Irvine scientists uncover a key cause of immunotherapy failure – and a path to overcoming it.

Lab-Grown Brain Models Gain a Sense of Place

UC Irvine researchers engineer human neocortex in which cells take on regional identity, mimicking early development.

Lifesaving Cancer Treatment Without Life-Threatening Side Effects

Researchers at UC Irvine have developed a new framework that could help make CAR T-cell therapy safer.

UC Irvine School of Medicine Research Insider

August 18, 2026

UC Irvine Researchers Awarded Nearly $10 Million to Advance Understanding of Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease

UC Irvine researchers Vivek Swarup, PhD, and Elizabeth Head, PhD, have received a major new award from the NIH to investigate a striking connection between Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease — research that could ultimately improve our understanding of Alzheimer’s for everyone.