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Feb 07, 2024 | UCI School of Medicine
Researchers find proton channels in plants could be key to regulating stress levels
Findings from this study could lead to better ways to prevent brain damage after a stroke.
Jan 20, 2024
Geoff Abbott: 2022-2024 SSIHI Samueli Scholarship
Jan 12, 2024
Paul Negulescu, Cahalan Lab postdoc alumnus, now at Vertex Inc, 2024 Breakthrough Prize for development of effective drugs to treat cystic fibrosis.
Paul Negulescu, 2024 Breakthrough Prize for development of effective drugs to treat cystic fibrosis.
Nov 15, 2023
Philip Felgner: elected National Academy of Inventors (2023)
Nov 13, 2023 | Forbes Health
Green Tea vs Black Tea: How Their Health Benefits Compare
A 2021 study by UCI researchers, including Geoffrey W. Abbott, PhD, vice dean of basic science research and professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, is cited in this article about how green and black tea may help regulate high blood pressure.
Nov 09, 2023 | UCI School of Medicine
UC Irvine researchers discover how to better support lab grown muscle cells after transplantation.
Researchers now have the recipe required to make muscle in the lab which can be used to treat a broad range of debilitating muscle disorders.
Nov 06, 2023 | Graduate Studies
UCI School of Medicine's PhD Orientation 2023
UCI School of Medicine welcomes 36 new PhD students for the fall of 2023.
Nov 01, 2023 | UCI School of Medicine
NIH awards $4.4 million to UCI Diabetes Center to study the epigenetic mechanisms for diabetes
Qin Yang, MD, PhD, endocrinologist, director of the UCI Diabetes Center and associate professor in the Departments of Medicine, and Physiology & Biophysics, at the UCI School of Medicine, has received two NIH awards totaling $4.4 million to study the epigenetic mechanisms for diabetes. Wei Li, PhD, professor of bioinformatics in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the UCI School of Medicine, is the co-principal investigator on both awards.
In Memoriam: Kenneth M. Baldwin, PhD
A founding member of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, which was originally named: Functional Correlates B, Dr. Baldwin was recruited in 1973 to join the faculty at UCI.
Oct 02, 2023 | UCI News
Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine cites UCI’s Phillip Felgner
Phil Felgner, PhD, professor in residence in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and director of the Vaccine Research & Development Center, is noted for his contribution to mRNA vaccines.