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Aug 20, 2026 | UC Irvine News
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.
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.
Aug 18, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
2026 White Coat Ceremony: A Commitment to Medicine & Service
The UC Irvine School of Medicine introduced its Class of 2030 at the annual White Coat Ceremony, celebrating these 125 future physicians alongside family and friends.
Aug 18, 2026 | UC Irvine News
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
Aug 17, 2026 | The Scientist
How a Neuroscientist's Genetic Discovery Treated Her Daughter's Epilepsy
“Tracy is very good at bringing scientists and clinicians with very different scopes of expertise to all work together,” said Jennifer Gelinas, a UCI Health neurologist, a pediatric epileptologist and scientist at the University of California, Irvine. “She has been really transformative in terms of helping patients and families to understand their diagnosis, to know what options are available to them, [and] to have a sense of agency and ownership,” said Gelinas.
Aug 14, 2026 | Everyday Health
Is Your Cold Actually COVID? What to Know as the Summer Surge Begins.
“We may anticipate an upswing over the next few weeks before rates come back down as fall approaches,” says Shruti Gohil, MD, associate medical director in the division of epidemiology and infection prevention at UCI Health in Orange, California. … “For most healthy people, given that the new COVID-19 vaccine is imminent, it seems reasonable to await the newest formulation,” says Gohil.
Aug 13, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
New Model of Human Epstein-Barr Virus Infection Helps Explain How EBV Works
How does the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) manipulate our immune cells during initial infection? A new “human-tonsil-in-a-dish” model offers insights.
Aug 13, 2026 | UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
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.
August 11, 2026