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Jul 06, 2026 | UC Irvine News
A New Era of Precision Depression Treatment
A new study led by researchers at UC Irvine and Mass General Brigham-affiliated McLean Hospital points to biomarker-guided care to improve antidepressant response rates and reduce trial-and-error prescribing.
Dean's News & Events Newsletter | 45th Edition
July 2026
Jul 03, 2026 | The Washington Post
I Said Yes to an Alzheimer's Blood Test. Then I Panicked.
Unlike a blood draw, a result can have a blast radius that reaches far beyond the exam room — into your family, your finances, your future. Once this information is out, cautioned Joshua Grill, a professor at the University of California, Irvine and director of UCI MIND who has received research funding from makers of Alzheimer’s drugs and diagnostic tests, “you cannot put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
Jul 02, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
A Case Study in Translating Scientific Discoveries into Real-World Care
Erlinda (“Chulie”) Ulloa, MD, leveraged bedside-to-bench testing to identify novel treatment options for a young woman with a life-threatening infection. The patient became the first in the U.S. to receive the investigational antibiotic cefepime–zidebactam.
Jul 02, 2026 | Orange County Business Journal
What's it Like at Hospitals on July 4th? We Asked Emergency Responders About Fireworks and Other Injuries.
UCI Health, which also has a burn center, sees more patients transferred from area hospitals with fireworks-related injuries and has more plastic and orthopedic surgeons on call during the holiday, often to help those who have lost limbs, need amputations or have other fireworks-related injuries often affecting their face or hands, said trauma and critical care surgeon Sigrid Burruss, MD.
Jul 01, 2026 | ProBio Inc.
ProBio's AAV Manufacturing Excellence Powers UC Irvine and GlyTR Therapeutics First‑in‑Class Pan-Cancer CAR‑T Program
UC Irvine researchers and GlyTR Therapeutics have advanced a groundbreaking, first-in-class pan-cancer CAR-T platform with the potential to expand the reach of cell therapy into solid tumors.
Jun 30, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
In Memoriam: Stephen H. White, PhD
Stephen H. White, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, died on May 31, 2026. White was a respected scientist and scholar who led the field in membrane biophysics.
New Screening Approach Advances Understanding of Defective Alternative RNA Processing
Researchers from UC Irvine and UC San Diego have carried out the largest screening of RNA-binding proteins, providing new links between alternative RNA processing and diseases, including cancer.
UC Irvine School of Medicine Research Insider
June 30, 2026
Jun 29, 2026 | UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation
The Problem with Good Enough: One Neurosurgeon’s Push for Better Tools
Through the UC Irvine startup AquaTeX, neurointerventional surgeon Ichiro Yuki, MD, is working to develop safer materials to inject into blood vessels.