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Jan 23, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Pioneering Research to Prevent and Reverse Blindness
Questioning the irreversibility of retinal death, new research supports preclinical studies in vision restoration by establishing infrastructure, technology and protocols that could pave the way for human donor eye transplantation.
Jan 21, 2026 | UC Irvine News
UC Irvine Receives its First ARPA-H Award to Advance Lymphatic Imaging, Precision Care
UC Irvine has received its first award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, launching a major effort to improve how doctors detect and treat diseases of the lymphatic system. This $7.45 award will support the development of noninvasive assessment technology.
Dec 12, 2025 | UC Irvine News
UC Irvine Receives $12 Million to Test Novel Stem Cell Therapy for Huntington’s Disease
The CIRM award will support a first-of-its-kind clinical trial of a novel neural stem cell therapy for Huntington’s disease.
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Hypothesizing that vascular dysfunction is a critical pathway driving Alzheimer’s progression in Down syndrome–associated Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Head, PhD, and Vivek Swarup, PhD, investigate molecular pathways that preserve or restore vascular integrity.
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Jan 23, 2026 | The New York Times
What Doctors Want You To Know About Suppplements
"The supplement industry is essentially unregulated, so you’re basically taking a gamble any time you’re taking one of those products,” said Brian Hitt, assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.
Jan 21, 2026 | Medscape
Inequalities in Treating Asian Americans for Heart Failure
Andy Y. Lee, MD, an assistant clinical professor at UC Irvine, noted that these patients highlight a persistent systemic failure of healthcare databases to capture the diversity of Asian American populations — despite federal standards for disaggregating Asian subgroup data having been issued in 2011.