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Sep 29, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Humanizing Healthcare: UC Irvine’s Medical Humanities and Arts Program

For more than 25 years, UC Irvine has helped students maintain a human-centered perspective through its Medical Humanities and Arts Program. Launched in 1999, MHAP helps future physicians foster a “whole person” approach to care.
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Sep 25, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Translational Addiction Podcast Explores 'Glia, Substance Use and the Adolescent Brain'

In the Lotfipour Lab's latest podcast, hosts Michaela Sumortin and Tanvi Garneni unpack how glial cells — astrocytes and microglia — shape the brain’s response to drugs of abuse.
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Sep 24, 2025 | Graduate Studies

Meet the Incoming School of Medicine PhD Students – 2025

Introducing the newest cohort of 36 PhD students in Biomedical Sciences for this fall. These students will conduct research under the guidance of their advisors in one of our five PhD degree-granting departments: Anatomy & Neurobiology, Biological Chemistry, Experimental Pathology, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics and Physiology & Biophysics.
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Sep 24, 2025 | Graduate Studies

UC Irvine School of Medicine's PhD Orientation 2025

UCI School of Medicine welcomes 35 incoming PhD students for the 2025-2026 academic year.

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Sep 24, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Reversing Age-Related Vision Decline

UC Irvine researchers explore a new treatment for reversing or possibly preventing age-related vision loss, and the findings could extend to boosting immune system health and fighting cancer.
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Sep 23, 2025 | Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Kidney Transplantation

Publication Spotlight

Explore recent publications from the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Kidney Transplantation and learn how their work is pushing the boundaries of discovery while helping improve patient care and health outcomes.
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Sep 18, 2025 | UC Irvine News

The Science of Sight

Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD, professor and director of the UC Irvine Brunson Center for Translational Vision Research, leads UC Irvine’s bold pursuit to cure blindness.
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Sep 18, 2025 | UC Irvine Health Affairs

UC Irvine Pioneers Space Medicine Education

UC Irvine School of Medicine is the first medical school in the U.S. to create a foundational Space Medicine Mission-Based Program for medical students. Learn more about this first-of-its-kind program and two School of Medicine faculty members leading this innovative program.

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Sep 18, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Blending Psychiatry and Computer Science to Improve Mental Health

UC Irvine faculty in psychiatry and computer science are collaborating with Asahi Breweries to develop a smartwatch-based application for diagnosing and predicting stress and depression.
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Sep 12, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Power of Philanthropy — Alejandro Cañas

Meet Alejandro Cañas, a fourth-year medical student and the first in his family to pursue higher education. Driven by a passion to give back, Cañas is using his medical education to uplift his community.