Dr. Aimee Edinger has been announced one of seven recipients of the first round of Proof of Product (POP) grants. This POP award provides up to $125,000 to move promising technologies closer to commercialization.
The POP grants…
In a study published in the prestigious journal, Science, Professor Maksim Plikus, (Developmental and Cell Biology), and his colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, discovered a natural regeneration process that stimulates scar-free skin repair, involving…
Susan Bryant, Ph.D. has been named the recipient of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science Career Achievement Award. Dr. Bryant is the former dean of the Biological Sciences School, a professor in Developmental and Cell Biology, and Vice…
With new NIH funding, Ali Mortazavi, UC Irvine Assistant Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology, will study the structure of all expressed genes using state-of-the-art, long-read sequencing technologies. Read more here….
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…