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Jan 07, 2025 | Nature
Career Pathways: Part 16
Cholsoon Jang, PhD, assistant professor in the Departments of Biological Chemistry and Medicine, shares how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted his journey to UC Irvine School of Medicine and how curiosity has driven his scientific journey from a very early age.
Jan 06, 2025 | UC Irvine News
New mechanism discovered that triggers immune response in cells with damaged DNA
A research team from the University of California, Irvine has revealed a previously unknown mechanism that triggers an inflammatory immune response in cells when their DNA is damaged. This finding could lead to more effective cancer treatments.
Jan 03, 2025 | The Wall Street Journal
The Mystery of What’s Causing Young People’s Cancer Leads to the Gut
Selma Masri, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry, shares her research and understanding of the microbiome, contributing to our understanding of the cause of increasing cancer cases among young people.
Oct 31, 2024 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
UC Irvine Researchers Develop Innovative CRISPR-Cas9 Method to Understand Antiviral Defense Response
A UC Irvine research team led by Rémi Buisson have developed a new, unbiased method utilizing CRISPR-Cas9 technology to identify novel regulators of the human antiviral defense response.
Sep 30, 2024 | Graduate Studies
Meet the Incoming School of Medicine PhD Students
Introducing the newest cohort of 36 PhD students in Biomedical Sciences for this fall. These students will conduct research under the guidance of their advisors in one of our five PhD degree-granting departments: Anatomy & Neurobiology, Biological Chemistry, Experimental Pathology, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, and Physiology & Biophysics.
UCI School of Medicine's PhD Orientation 2024
UCI School of Medicine welcomes 36 incoming PhD students for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Sep 27, 2024 | UC Irvine News
Circadian disruption, gut microbiome changes linked to colorectal cancer progression
Research from the University of California, Irvine has revealed how disruption of the circadian clock, the body’s internal, 24-hour biological pacemaker, may accelerate the progression of colorectal cancer by affecting the gut microbiome and intestinal barrier function.
Aug 02, 2024 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Biological Chemistry Professor Named a 2024 Pew Scholar
Cholsoon Jang, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at UC Irvine School of Medicine, has been named a 2024 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
Jun 28, 2024 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
UC Irvine researchers investigate muscle cell development in muscular dystrophy
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FHSD) is one of the most common muscular dystrophies, which results in progressive weakening of skeletal muscles. Now, a new study published in Genome Research by UCI School of Medicine researchers utilize cutting-edge single-cell spatial transcriptomics to analyze gene expression in individual nuclei and myocytes of disease and control samples to determine how the disease state develops during human skeletal myocyte differentiation.
Jun 04, 2024 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
UCI researchers awarded a NIAMS T32 grant for PhD training
Kyoko Yokomori, PhD, professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry, Tahseen Mozaffar, MD, professor in the Department of Neurology, and Armando Villalta, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, were awarded a NIAMS T32 grant titled "MAXIMUS: MAXimizing Training in MUScle Research."