Jun 25, 2026 | Becker's Hospital Review

UC Irvine Taps Interim Health Affairs Leader

Michael Stamos, MD, was appointed interim vice chancellor of health affairs at the University of California, Irvine, effective July 15, according to a June 23 letter from Chancellor Howard Gillman, PhD.

Jun 24, 2026 | The Orange County Register

UC Irvine Neurobiologist Had His 'A-HA' Moment in 1981. Now He's Won the Prestigious Kavli Prize.

Oswald Steward, PhD, is the director of UC Irvine’s Reeve-Irvine Research Center, where he has led efforts to understand neural repair and regeneration after spinal cord injury.

Jun 24, 2026 | Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

First-in-Human Stem Cell Therapy Trial for Huntington’s Disease Begins at UCI Health

“This clinical trial highlights the important role that an interdisciplinary academic and clinical team together with the HD families, plays in advancing medicine,” said Leslie M. Thompson, PhD, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at UC Irvine.

Jun 24, 2026 | NPR

Should Your Pet Be in Hospice?

Sunitha Puri, MD, is associate professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine where she is director of the inpatient palliative care service. Her patients are human, but she’s given a lot of thought to the parallels for animal patients.

Jun 23, 2026 | Orange County Business Journal

UCI Names New Interim Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs

Michael J. Stamos, MD, current dean of the UC Irvine School of Medicine, will serve as interim vice chancellor of health affairs, effective July 15, 2026.

Jun 20, 2026 | Health

6 Foods to Help Lower Blood Pressure Besides Pomegranate Juice

Like pomegranates, leafy greens like kale and spinach are rich in naturally occurring nitrates, according to Geoffrey Abbott, PhD, a professor of physiology and biophysics in the School of Medicine at UC Irvine. Your body converts nitrates into nitric oxide, a key molecule involved in blood pressure regulation.

Jun 19, 2026 | Live Science

Estrogen Levels in Both the Male and Female Brain May Share Memory's Resilience in Face of Stress

The study suggests that these local estrogen concentrations may influence one's vulnerability to memory problems following major acute stress. Although the research was conducted in mice, the authors think it likely has relevance to humans. "I think this is highly translatable," study senior author Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD, a professor, developmental neuroscientist and child neurologist at the University of California, Irvine, told Live Science.

Jun 18, 2026 | Psychology Today

Ear Ringing and the Residual Self

Hamid Djalilian, a professor of otolaryngology at the University of California, Irvine writes, “To understand what goes wrong in chronic tinnitus, it helps to understand what the brain is doing when it has downtime. … When it registers a signal as persistent and significant, the default mode network begins integrating it — not as background noise, but as a fact about the person experiencing it.”

Jun 16, 2026 | Bioengineer.org

UC Irvine Scientist Awarded Nearly $4 Million NIH Grant to Develop Therapeutic Vaccine Targeting Genital Herpes

This ambitious five-year project aims to tackle recurrent genital herpes caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), a persistent viral infection that affects over 60 million Americans and more than half a billion individuals globally.

Jun 16, 2026 | Medical Xpress

Utah's Strict 0.05 BAC Limit Significantly Reduces Drunk Driving Fatalities, Analysis Finds

Lead investigator Federico E. Vaca, MD, MPH, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, notes, "In the last decade for which we have federally published U.S. crash data (2014–2023) available, the number of alcohol-impaired driving crash fatalities increased by 25% and the corresponding fatality rate increased by 15%.