Apr 06, 2021 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UCI awarded 5-year, $4.2M grant to study rare muscle disorder affecting aging Americans

Currently untreatable, sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) causes muscle weakness and severe disability

Apr 01, 2021 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UCI-led team awarded $2.3 million as part of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine

Precision medicine will be used to study the impacts of adverse and unpredictable experiences on children's neurodevelopment

Mar 08, 2021 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

New discovery explains antihypertensive properties of green and black tea

A new study from the University of California, Irvine shows that compounds in both green and black tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins in the blood vessel wall. The discovery helps explain the antihypertensive properties of tea and could lead to the design of new blood pressure-lowering medications.

Feb 11, 2021 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Tuning the circadian clock, boosting rhythms may be key to future treatments and medicines

New article unravels the remarkable relationship between time-of-day and physiology

Jan 27, 2021 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

New study points to better diagnostics for cancer

Method helps researchers identify more reliable cancer biomarkers than traditional methods

Jan 21, 2021 | UC Irvine News

UCI to build world-class hospital on Irvine campus

UCI Medical Center will anchor new UCI Presidential Gateway featuring healing gardens, naturescapes and research preserve

Nov 12, 2020 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

New prediction algorithm identifies previously undetected cancer driver genes

Leveraging public data reveals new information about genetic and epigenetic alterations and their roles in cancer.

Oct 22, 2020 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

NIH Awards Over $100 Million to Examine Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in Adults with Down Syndrome

The Alzheimer’s Biomarkers Consortium – Down Syndrome (ABC-DS), a multi-institution research team, co-led by members from the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded an unprecedented five-year, $109 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to expand research on the biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome.

Oct 21, 2020 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Cunningham tapped as new chair for UCI Pediatrics and Senior Vice President & Pediatrician-in-Chief for CHOC Children’s

Following a national search, the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and CHOC Children’s have jointly announced that Coleen Cunningham, MD, a renowned professor of pediatrics and pathology from Duke University, has accepted a dual appointment position as both the chair for the UCI Department of Pediatrics and as senior vice president and pediatrician-in-chief for CHOC Children’s.

Oct 20, 2020 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Kristen M. Kelly, MD, appointed chair of UCI Department of Dermatology

Kristen M. Kelly, MD, has been appointed chair for the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine Department of Dermatology, effective September 6, 2020.