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Nov 13, 2023 | Forbes Health
Green Tea vs Black Tea: How Their Health Benefits Compare
A 2021 study by UCI researchers, including Geoffrey W. Abbott, PhD, vice dean of basic science research and professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, is cited in this article about how green and black tea may help regulate high blood pressure.
Nov 13, 2023 | Scripps News
Researchers testing out drug for Alzheimer's prevention
Joshua D. Grill, PhD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, talks to Scripps News about a new drug researchers are testing out for Alzheimer's prevention.
Nov 09, 2023 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
UC Irvine researchers discover how to better support lab grown muscle cells after transplantation.
Researchers now have the recipe required to make muscle in the lab which can be used to treat a broad range of debilitating muscle disorders.
Nov 08, 2023 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Bridget Fortin Named Inaugural Estée Lauder Epigenetics Fellow at UCI
Fortin was honored at the Inaugural Paolo Sassone-Corsi Lectureship, held on Oct. 19, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, Calif.
UCI School of Medicine Research Insider
November 7, 2023
Nov 03, 2023 | Healthline
Key FDA Panel Says New Gene-Editing Cure for Sickle Cell Anemia Is Safe
Zahra Pakbaz, MD, associate clinical professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine, talks to Healthline about sickle cell disease and a new treatment being reviewed by the FDA.
Nov 02, 2023 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
UCI School of Medicine Celebrates Native American Heritage Month
This month, we happily celebrate the accomplishments of Alexander Red Eagle, MD, PhD, HS clinical assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and chief hospitalist at Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, CA. At the medical center, Dr. Red Eagle has been commended for his active efforts to recruit underrepresented medical students into the internal medicine residency program.
Nov 01, 2023 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
In Memoriam: Kenneth M. Baldwin, PhD
A founding member of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, which was originally named: Functional Correlates B, Dr. Baldwin was recruited in 1973 to join the faculty at UCI.
NIH awards $4.4 million to UCI Diabetes Center to study the epigenetic mechanisms for diabetes
Qin Yang, MD, PhD, endocrinologist, director of the UCI Diabetes Center and associate professor in the Departments of Medicine, and Physiology & Biophysics, at the UCI School of Medicine, has received two NIH awards totaling $4.4 million to study the epigenetic mechanisms for diabetes. Wei Li, PhD, professor of bioinformatics in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the UCI School of Medicine, is the co-principal investigator on both awards.
October 31, 2023