NSF grant supports UCI microfluidics research center
UCI’s Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for ongoing research into developing miniature devices...
View ArticleDr. Steve Goldstein named UCI vice chancellor for health affairs
Irvine, Calif., Dec. 18, 2018 — Dr. Steve Goldstein – a nationally renowned academic leader, physician and pediatric researcher – has been named vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of...
View ArticleNanotechnology treatment shows promise against multiple sclerosis
Irvine, Calif., June 5, 2019 — A nanotechnology treatment derived from bone marrow stem cells has reversed multiple sclerosis symptoms in mice and could eventually be used to help humans, according to...
View ArticleClaudia Benavente is awarded a $2.1 million NCI grant to combat childhood...
Claudia Benavente, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and developmental & cell biology at UCI, has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a...
View ArticleUCI team pioneers cancer treatment that targets bone metastases while sparing...
Irvine, Calif., July 8, 2019 — University of California, Irvine researchers have developed and tested on mice a therapeutic treatment that uses engineered stem cells to target and kill cancer bone...
View ArticlePharm Sci’s Robert Spitale wins Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Award
Robert Spitale, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, is one of five winners of 2019 Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Awards, intended to accelerate high-risk and high-reward...
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Three UCI early-career researchers receive 2019 NIH Director’s New Innovator...
The National Institutes of Health has granted 2019 Director’s New Innovator Awards to three UCI early-career researchers: Han Li and Timothy Downing of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...
View ArticleResearchers develop ‘lab on a chip’ for personalized drug efficacy monitoring
UCI researchers and collaborators have developed a “lab on a chip” platform to facilitate continuous, inexpensive, rapid and personalized drug screening. The technology is capable of evaluating the...
View ArticleSeeking to serve the poor
After an orientation fair at Trabuco Hills High School, Loan Le knew where she wanted to go to college. She was impressed with UCI’s core values, its multicultural community and its beautiful urban...
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Four UCI professors awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
Irvine, Calif., April 14, 2020 — Four professors at the University of California, Irvine – historian Mark LeVine, scientist Andrej Lupták, sculptor Jennifer Pastor and journalist Amy Wilentz – have...
View ArticleGlobal oncology pharmacists face restricted access to essential PPE items,...
Irvine, Calif., June 8, 2020 — Oncology pharmacy practitioners around the globe are fighting to provide cancer patients high quality cancer care with increasingly limited and sometimes restricted...
View ArticleUCI Podcast: A prescription to reshape healthcare
UCI is writing the prescription that will reshape healthcare for the 21st century. Last week, the University of California Board of Regents approved the establishment of a new School of Pharmacy and...
View ArticleSingle-minded siblings
They’re known around UCI as “the three siblings” – two sisters and a brother who not only share an on-campus apartment, but also work as doctoral students in two labs at the new School of Pharmacy and...
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UCI to launch innovative School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 4, 2020 — As part of a prescription to reshape 21st-century healthcare, the University of California, Irvine is announcing the establishment of the School of Pharmacy and...
View ArticleUCI develops low-cost, accurate COVID-19 antibody detection platform
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 19, 2020 — A robust, low-cost imaging platform utilizing lab-on-a-chip technology created by University of California, Irvine scientists may be available for rapid coronavirus...
View ArticleUCI Podcast: From leaving Syria to preventing psychiatric disorders
Since 2011, 13 million Syrians have fled the nation’s civil war. Amal Alachkar and her family were among them. Alachkar tells the UCI podcast how she went from establishing Syria’s first neuroscience...
View ArticleSchizophrenia: Nurture cannot overcome nature
In the great nature vs. nurture debate, nature just got a win. UCI research led by Amal Alachkar found that too much of a certain amino acid in utero caused schizophrenia in mice despite the quality...
View ArticlePharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences dean endows Founding Partners Scholarship
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 15, 2020 – Jan Hirsch, founding dean of the new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, has created the Founding Partners...
View ArticleUCI professor’s life skills course is expanded to all 10 UC campuses
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 30, 2020 — Long successful at the University of California, Irvine, Mahtab Jafari’s Life 101 course will be available across the 10 UC campuses during the upcoming winter quarter....
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UCI, UCSD study: People more likely to pick up prescriptions via automated...
Irvine, Calif., Dec. 10, 2020 — Ever see long lines at the pharmacy counter and give up on a medication, or find that the drive is just a little too long? A study by the University of California,...
View ArticleUCI pharmacists on the front lines
For the last year, doctors and nurses battling the COVID-19 outbreak have filled the spotlight. Now, as the United States – and the world – embarks on the biggest vaccination effort in history,...
View ArticleJohn Chaput can store the Declaration of Independence in a single molecule
Just how much space would you need to store all of the world’s data? A building? A block? A city? The amount of global data is estimated to be around 44 zettabytes. A 15-million-square-foot warehouse...
View ArticlePharmaceutical sciences researcher gets NIH award for drug discovery tech...
The National Institutes of Health has granted $2 million to researchers in UCI’s School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. The new Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award will fund drug...
View ArticleKay Family Foundation gives $1.3 million to UCI Center for Healthspan Sciences
Irvine, Calif., April 21, 2021 – The Irvine-based Kay Family Foundation has made a gift of $1.3 million to the UCI Center for Healthspan Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. The funds...
View ArticleUCI commentary expands understanding of how transplanted stem cells address...
UCI scholars Zachary W. Wagoner, a graduate student researcher in cellular & molecular biosciences, and Weian Zhao, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, have identified a new mechanism by which...
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Efforts to treat COVID-19 patients chronicled in UC Health medications data
Irvine, Calif., May 21, 2021 – A record of medicine utilization patterns assembled by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the UC San Diego School of...
View ArticleUCI team gets $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop tools for RNA...
A multidisciplinary team of UCI professors has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop new molecular tools to identify ribonucleic acids essential in learning and memory...
View ArticleUCI professor receives American College of Clinical Pharmacy award
Irvine, Calif., July 7, 2021 — Joyce Yu-Chia Lee, clinical professor of health sciences at the University of California, Irvine, has received the 2021 Clinical Practice Award from the American College...
View ArticleCheryl Wisseh awarded grant to study racial disparities in diabetes drug...
Cheryl Wisseh, UCI assistant professor of clinical pharmacy practice, has received an 18-month, $10,000 grant from the ASHP Research and Education Foundation to study racial and ethnic disparities in...
View ArticleUCI to welcome inaugural Doctor of Pharmacy class at White Coat Ceremony
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021 – The inaugural class of Pharm.D. students at the University of California, Irvine will begin their journey Sept. 24 at a White Coat Ceremony, a rite of passage marking...
View ArticleUCI-led study finds medicinal plant extract to prevent morphine addiction
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 12, 2021 — The extract of the plant Corydalis yanhusuo prevents morphine tolerance and dependence while also reversing opiate addiction, according to a recent study led by the...
View ArticleUCI study could explain why Parkinson’s drug improves, then diminishes...
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 19, 2022 — A team of University of California, Irvine researchers has discovered a possible reason why L-dopa, the front-line drug for treating Parkinson’s disease, loses efficacy...
View ArticleUCI-led team helps standardize collection, reporting of wearable activity...
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 16, 2022 — Wearable activity trackers are not only popular with consumers but also commonly employed by clinicians for both real-time and remote monitoring of patients’ physical...
View ArticleUCI team develops simplified, faster process for detection of viral RNA in...
UCI researchers have originated a simplified, faster clinical sample testing method to detect genetic material, including viral RNA. Their findings were recently published in the journal Scientific...
View ArticleBeyond the corner drugstore
The role of the pharmacist is evolving beyond dispensing medication to addressing the increased intricacy and cost of supporting the wellness of the country’s aging and diverse population. There is...
View ArticleA new approach to opioid addiction
Opioid use disorder is a complex and complicated problem in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were a record-breaking 100,306 overdose deaths during the...
View ArticleUCI-developed COVID-19 test detects, identifies specific variants with 100%...
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 3, 2022 — University of California, Irvine researchers have developed a COVID-19 test that detects and identifies specific SARS-CoV-2 variants with 100% accuracy. In a study, the...
View ArticleUCI-led study shows Rhodiola rosea root might be beneficial for managing type...
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 — A team of researchers led by the University of California, Irvine has discovered that treatment with an extract from the roots of the Rhodiola rosea plant might be...
View ArticleCircadian rhythm disruption found to be common among mental health disorders
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 – Anxiety, autism, schizophrenia and Tourette syndrome each have their own distinguishing characteristics, but one factor bridging these and most other mental disorders...
View ArticleUCI launches Center for Neurotherapeutics to facilitate drug discovery and...
UCI has launched a Center for Neurotherapeutics to facilitate drug discovery for neurological diseases. It’s led by Dr. Albert LaSpada, Distinguished Professor of pathology, neurology and biological...
View ArticleUCI researchers discover crucial role of brain’s striatum cilia in time...
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 30, 2022 — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that removal of cilia from the brain’s striatum region impaired time perception and judgment,...
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X Marks the Spot
To understand John Chaput’s cutting-edge research in using synthetic genetics in pharmaceutical drug discovery and development, look for the X factor. Chaput is a UCI professor of pharmaceutical...
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Learning With and From Each Other
Anu Light – playing the patient in a mock scenario – wears makeup so that her cheeks appear flushed, slurs some of her speech and plays up her disheveled hair and clothes. The first-year student in...
View Article#IamUCI – Brandon Saint-Milfort
As a child of immigrants from Haiti and El Salvador, Brandon Saint-Milfort sees many structural issues in the American healthcare system that disproportionately affect patients of color. His joint...
View ArticleAnai Campos Contreras named 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical...
The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Anai Campos Contreras, incoming UC Irvine postdoctoral fellow in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, a 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences....
View ArticleAssociate Professor Claudia Benavente featured on Chilean TV show
Claudia Benavente, UCI associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, was recently featured on the Chilean TV show “Pasaporte Ciencia” (“Science Passport”) as one of the Chilean scientists conducting...
View ArticleUC Irvine-led research team leverages power of ribosomes to develop chemical...
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 23, 2023 — A research team led by University of California, Irvine scientists has developed an innovative method for quickly and efficiently creating vast collections of chemical...
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Leading the way in transformative healthcare
Rather than enjoying one of their last days of summer break, 150 Orange County high school students boarded buses at 7 a.m. to spend Aug. 3 at UCI’s Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health...
View ArticleA symbol of shared success
When Sakhi Patel donned her first white coat at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences’ ceremony Sept. 22, it was more than just a moment of personal achievement. For her, the garment...
View ArticleUC Irvine-led study links biomarkers and chemotherapy-related...
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 24, 2024 — A study led by University of California, Irvine researchers has revealed a connection between blood levels of omega-3 and the inflammatory biomarker interleukin-8 and...
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