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Jul 08, 2019 | Wired
Waze Data Can Help Predict Car Crashes and Cut Response Time
Waze users notify the app of crashes an average of 2 minutes, 41 seconds before anyone alerts law enforcement.
Jul 01, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
UCI researchers to join national effort to build atlas of human breast cells
University of California, Irvine researchers will help lead an unprecedented national effort to document the intricate cell types and states in breast tissue that underlie cancer. Compilation of the Human Breast Cell Atlas will be supported by a $4 million Seed Network grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Jun 27, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
Researchers discover new way to discriminate between mutations responsible for promoting cancer growth and those that are not
Until now, researchers believed recurrent mutations (hotspot mutations) in cancer tumors were the important mutations (driver mutations) that promoted cancer progression. A new University of California, Irvine-led study indicates this is not always true.
Jun 06, 2019 | California Healthcare Foundation
PRIMEd for Health: California Medical Schools Focus on Underserved Communities
Growing up poor near the Mexican border gave Karla Garcia, MD, MPH, insight into the daily struggles faced by Latinos with low incomes. After her medical training, Garcia returned to the community where she grew up to practice family medicine at San Ysidro Health, which serves San Diego County through a network of clinics near the border.
May 30, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
UCI research helps shed new light on circadian clocks
Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain, studies show
May 22, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
NEW STUDY SHOWS CROWDSOURCED TRAFFIC DATA COULD SAVE LIVES APP-USERS POST CRASH ALERTS MINUTES BEFORE THEY ARE REPORTED TO CHP
A new University of California, Irvine-led pilot study finds, on average, Waze "crash alerts" occur two minutes and 41 seconds prior to their corresponding California Highway Patrol (CHP)-reported crash. These minutes could mean the difference between life and death.
May 22, 2019
NEW STUDY SHOWS CROWDSOURCED TRAFFIC DATA COULD SAVE LIVES APPUSERS POST CRASH ALERTS MINUTES BEFORE THEY ARE REPORTED TO CHP
May 13, 2019 | UCI News
Study touts new method to reduce cognitive side effects of brain cancer radiation treatment
In hopeful news for brain cancer patients, researchers from UCI led by Charles Limoli, PhD, in collaboration with investigators from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, have discovered how an experimental technology called FLASH radiotherapy dramatically reduces the adverse cognitive side effects unleashed by traditional radiation treatments.
Apr 26, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
A physician-scholar first
UCI grad student Sarah O’Dell is pursuing both an M.D. and a doctorate in the humanities
Apr 23, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
John Christian “Chris” Fox, MD, appointed chair of the UCI School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine John Christian “Chris” Fox, MD, has been appointed chair of the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, effective immediately. He served as interim chair since 2017.