Oct 21, 2019 | UC Irvine News

UCI vision scientist Krzysztof Palczewski elected to National Academy of Medicine

Distinction recognizes his contributions to understanding of retinal diseases

Oct 15, 2019

UCI professor named to CDC committee on sexually transmitted infections

Sean Young, PhD, professor at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine and Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, has been appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee to address the alarming increase in sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Oct 07, 2019

UCI researcher receives 2019 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to study learning and memory

Study aimed at understanding and controlling memory as key to developing treatments for drug addiction, depression, anxiety and PTSD

Sep 30, 2019

New UCI study explains the molecular mechanism of botanical folk medicines used to treat hypertension

Lavender, fennel and chamomile among herbs discovered to act upon a shared therapeutic target in blood vessels

Sep 26, 2019

UCI School of Medicine researchers lead an international team for $4.3M NIH BRAIN Initiative award for new brain mapping tool

Professors Xiangmin Xu and Rozanne Sandri-Goldin, in collaboration with Professors Bert Semler and Todd Holmes at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, were awarded a three-year, $4.3 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative grant.

Sep 23, 2019

UCI study reveals critical role of new brain circuits in improving learning and memory for Alzheimer’s disease treatment

A University of California, Irvine-led team of scientists has discovered how newly identified neural circuits in the brain’s hippocampal formation play a critical role in object-location learning and memory.