Sep 05, 2026 | Business Insider

Two scientists made huge bets on 'impossible' cancer treatments. They're finally paying off.

It's taken at least 40 years," mRNA vaccine researcher Phil Felgner, a University of California, Irvine professor who helped develop early versions of the lipid nanoparticle technology that powers the new vaccines, said. "It's taken this much time for it to mature.

Sep 01, 2026 | Women's Health

What Doctors Want You to Know About the New 'Personalized' Cancer Vaccine Making Headlines

According to Philip Felgner, PhD, a DNA and mRNA-based vaccine development expert at UC Irvine, “This is the first large phase 3 study to demonstrate meaningful clinical benefit from an individualized mRNA cancer vaccine."

Aug 11, 2026 | National Institutes of Health

Childhood Screen Detects Mental Health Risk

An NIH-funded research team led by Dr. Tallie Z. Baram at the University of California, Irvine and Dr. Laura Glynn at Chapman University …. added five unpredictability measures to a current adversity screen. They tested whether these measures helped improve the detection of childhood mental health conditions.

Aug 06, 2026 | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Unpredictability Is an Important Childhood Adversity That a Simple Screen Can Capture, Study Shows

This observation is made by a team led by BBRF Scientific Council member Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD, of the University of California Irvine, in a newly published paper in Nature Mental Health reporting on their efforts to test a new screening instrument designed to capture sources of stress and trauma occurring in childhood that may be missed in existing screens

Jul 21, 2026 | Live Science

Childhood Unpredictability Linked to Higher Mental Health Risks

“What we discovered in the laboratory mice is that optimal development of the brain depends on consistent patterns, which enable the maturation of brain connections. Like mice, children's brain connections involved in happiness, threat and safety benefit from repeated, predictable experiences," said Dr. Tallie Z. Baram, study's senior author and co-corresponding author.

Jun 20, 2026 | Health

6 Foods to Help Lower Blood Pressure Besides Pomegranate Juice

Like pomegranates, leafy greens like kale and spinach are rich in naturally occurring nitrates, according to Geoffrey Abbott, PhD, a professor of physiology and biophysics in the School of Medicine at UC Irvine. Your body converts nitrates into nitric oxide, a key molecule involved in blood pressure regulation.

Jun 19, 2026 | Live Science

Estrogen Levels in Both the Male and Female Brain May Share Memory's Resilience in Face of Stress

The study suggests that these local estrogen concentrations may influence one's vulnerability to memory problems following major acute stress. Although the research was conducted in mice, the authors think it likely has relevance to humans. "I think this is highly translatable," study senior author Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD, a professor, developmental neuroscientist and child neurologist at the University of California, Irvine, told Live Science.