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Jun 11, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine

Fifth Annual Research & Faculty Mentoring Awards

The Fifth Annual Research & Faculty Mentoring Awards celebrated faculty, staff and trainees for groundbreaking achievements in basic science and clinical research and introduced the inaugural Gina Lee Award for Excellence in Mentoring.
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Jun 05, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine

Improved Understanding of Human Brain Development and Disorders

New findings provide a better understanding of human brain development and potentially how birth defects and neurodevelopmental disorders arise. They also inform an approach for creating stem cell-derived tools to deliver neurotherapeutics.

Elizabeth Head

Jun 03, 2025 | Being Patient

Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers Struggle As 1/3 Lose Their Federal Funding

Elizabeth Head, PhD, leads UC Irvine's Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, which relies on NIH funding.
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Jun 03, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine

Findings Offer Hope for Future ALS Treatment

A new study questions the belief that altered RNA splicing is the main driver of ALS. The findings suggest another aspect of RNA processing, which is the site of polyadenylation, may be equally important.
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May 12, 2025 | UCI Department of Emergency Medicine

Mentoring Excellence in the Lotfipour Lab

The Lotfipour lab celebrates Yasamin Heydary receiving the 2025 Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Mentoring at UC Irvine! Honored by UROP, she'll be recognized May 16 at the Bren Center for her dedication to undergraduate research.
Elizabeth Head

May 02, 2025 | Neurology Live

Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s: Clinical Trials, Equity, and Patient-Centered Progress

Neurology Live Podcast (Episode 140) features Elizabeth Head, PhD, discussing the evolving intersection of Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease using updates from the Alzheimer Biomarker Consortium – Down Syndrome (ABC-DS).
Elizabeth Head

Apr 16, 2025 | NeurologyLive

Adapting Cognitive Tools for Clinical Trials in Down Syndrome: Elizabeth Head, PhD

Elizabeth Head, PhD, professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, gives clinical insights in this video interview on efforts to refine neuropsychological outcome measures for individuals with Down syndrome at risk for Alzheimer's disease.
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Mar 18, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine

UC Irvine researchers found links that may provide therapeutic targets for neurological diseases

Wei Li, PhD, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Elizabeth Head

Mar 07, 2025 | People

Doctors Shocked After Woman with Alzheimer’s Disease Stays Cognitively 'Intact’: ‘Remarkable'

Elizabeth Head, PhD, professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, shares about a study that involved a patient with Down syndrome who had all the “brain changes” of Alzheimer’s disease but didn’t exhibit any of the cognitive symptoms that are characteristic of the progressive dementia.

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Mar 04, 2025 | Newsweek

Woman Donated Her Brain to Science — Alzheimer's Experts Shocked by Discovery

Elizabeth Head, PhD, professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, talks to Newsweek about the findings from a woman who participated in the Alzheimer Biomarker Consortium—Down Syndrome Research Study.