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May 20, 2025 | UC Irvine Health Affairs
UC Irvine Celebrates Completion of Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building
The building will be one of the largest translational research hubs on the West Coast once it becomes fully operational in the coming months.
May 19, 2025 | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Meet Lan Huang
Q&A with Huang, PhD, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics associate editor who uses crosslinking mass spec to study protein–protein interactions.
May 13, 2025 | BrightFocus Foundation
BrightFocus Foundation Awards Nearly $13M to 50 Scientists for Alzheimer’s, Macular Degeneration, and Glaucoma Research
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, PhD, is one of the National Glaucoma Research grant recipients.
Apr 18, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Study aims to identify at-risk individuals before onset of Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers hope to identify some of the earliest changes in the Alzheimer's disease brain to help identify at-risk individuals, including people previously excluded from current therapies.
Apr 17, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Key enzyme in lipid metabolism linked to immune system aging
Decreased activity of the enzyme ELOVL2 accelerates white blood cell aging and alters the expression of cancer-associated genes, new research suggests.
Mar 19, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
UC Irvine School of Medicine Reaches Semifinals of STAT Madness
UC Irvine School of Medicine’s research team has made it through to the Semifinals of STAT Madness, an annual competition by STAT that brings together the best biomedical research from the past year. Research from institutions across the country face off against each other in a bracket-style matchup in which votes determine the winner.
Jan 13, 2025 | Phys.org
Nuclear speckles identified as key hubs for gene expression regulation
UCI researchers, including Yongsheng Shi, PhD, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and first author Yoseop Yoon, PhD, uncover the critical role of nuclear speckles as the major site of pre-mRNA 3' end processing.
Dec 03, 2024 | UC Irvine News
UC Irvine-co-led Study Finds DNA Damage is Key Factor in Age-related Macular Degeneration
A research team co-led by the University of California, Irvine has discovered that accumulated DNA damage in the retina is a key contributor to age-related macular degeneration and that targeting specific retinal cell types may lead to treatments that slow or stop progression.
Oct 04, 2024 | UC Irvine News
UC Irvine researchers are first to reveal role of ophthalmic acid in motor function control
A research team from the University of California, Irvine is the first to reveal that a molecule in the brain — ophthalmic acid — unexpectedly acts like a neurotransmitter similar to dopamine in regulating motor function, offering a new therapeutic target for Parkinson’s and other movement diseases.
Oct 03, 2024 | UC Irvine News
UC Irvine receives initial $33 million in federal support for vaccine research
Philip Felgner, PhD, professor in residence in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, and director of UC Irvine’s Adeline Yen Mah Vaccine Center, will lead a multi-institutional pandemic planning effort with this $33 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.