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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.
Dec 11, 2025 | UC Irvine News
Vision Scientist Tibor Juhasz, PhD, Elected to National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors has chosen two University of California, Irvine researchers to its class of 2025 fellows. Biomedical engineer Tibor Juhasz, PhD, and computer scientist Marios Papaefthymiou, PhD, are among 185 new NAI fellows elected this year.
Dec 08, 2025 | UC Irvine News
$80 Million in Donations Propels UCI MIND toward World-class Center Focused on Dementia
A $50 million lead gift from the Quilter family anchors the campaign to create a dedicated center for UC Irvine’s Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders.
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Lauren Otsuka was awarded the Epigenetics Fellowship in recognition of her doctoral research in the Borrelli Lab, exploring the genetic, epigenetic and metabolic mechanisms contributing to psychiatric disorders.
On Dec. 10, UCI Health – Irvine welcomed the first patients into its 144-bed facility, offering a new kind of hospital and a new kind of patient experience.
In this episode of the Translational Addiction Podcast, produced by the Lotfipour Lab, hosts examine the article “Nicotine and the Developing Brain,” by researchers Emily Castro, Shahrdad Lotfipour and Frances Leslie. In this episode, they discuss how nicotine impacts neurodevelopment across the lifespan.
Dec 08, 2025 | Verywell Health
We Asked An Eye Expert If Vitamin A Can Actually Improve Vision
To understand whether vitamin A really affects eyesight, we talked to Philip D. Kiser, PharmD, PhD, an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at UC Irvine School of Medicine.
Dec 05, 2025 | CBS News
First All-Electric Acute Care Hospital To Open In California
Treating patients without harming the environment: that is the goal of the nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital opening next week in California. UCI Health hospital in Irvine, California, is breaking ground in more ways than one. Joe Brothman, director of general services at UCI Health, said, "What that means is there's no natural gas coming into this entire campus." It’s welcoming patients this month and also opening the door to hospital innovation.