Using an innovative approach, Professor Aimee L. Edinger and colleagues have discovered a new drug that starves cancer cells to death by disrupting two pathways that supply nutrients for cell growth. Their team also discovered the drug was lethal to…
Professors Anne Calof and Arthur Lander were honored as the 2016 Champions of Hope in science by Global Genes, a rare disease patient advocacy charity, at its fifth annual Tribute to Champions of Hope gala on…
Dr. Bruce Blumberg serves as a scientific advisor for Non Toxic Irvine, a group with the specific intent of making the city the first pesticide-free community in Orange County. OC Weekly has a vast feature article…
We are so proud of our graduate students who won awards this academic year!
Bassem Shoucri (Blumberg Lab) awarded the Fine Science Tools Graduate Travel Award
Soledad Reyes-Mochel (Cho Lab) awarded the Susan V. Bryant Graduate…
Dr. Maksim (Max) Plikus has been named a 2016 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences for his outstanding research on wound healing. This prestigious award went to only 22 investigators in 2016, and we are…
Our annual graduation luncheon and ceremony was held on June 9 to celebrate our graduating PhD and MS graduate students as well as our 199 undergrads, Genetics majors and Dev Bio majors. We are so…
Justin Shaffer, Assistant Teaching Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Golden Apple Award. The Golden Apple award honors the Biological Sciences School’s outstanding teachers who have…
Shin Lin, a professor at UC Irvine, says he has found tai chi to have positive effects on participants’ stress levels and immune systems. He measures brain waves, heart rate, blood flow and temperature while subjects do…
The goal of UC Irvine Applied Innovation is to bring faculty and business together to develop campus-based discoveries into entities of economic growth for the community. To help with this ambitious goal, the center has…