This award is intended to recognize and reward the most academically superior doctoral students, exhibiting outstanding promise as scientists, researchers and leaders….
The foundation targets researchers working on high-risk and high-reward projects that have the potential to revolutionize medical treatments for patients….
Claudia Benavente, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and developmental & cell biology, has been awarded a grant from the National Cancer Institute t
o develop a novel therapeutic intervention for the treatment of the childhood cancer, osteosarcoma.
Benavente’s…
We would like to congratulate the following Developmental and Cell Biology students for their 2019 awards. We are very proud of them!!!
Barbara Waring (Suetterlin Lab): Fine Science Tools Graduate Travel Award
Alexa Roemmich (O’Dowd Lab): Edward…
New insights on circumventing a key obstacle on the road to anti-scarring treatment have been published by Maksim Plikus, an associate professor in developmental and cell biology at the UCI School of Biological Sciences and…
Dr. Digman’s Proposal/Project Title: CAREER: 3D Multimodal Tracking of Mitochondria During Tumor Cell Invasion Major Goals: This proposal aims to develop innovative imaging methods to track mitochondrial movement with nanometer precision while also measuring focal…
Changes in FNDC3 gene function in humans causes birth defects and is associated with poor cancer prognosis, but it has proven challenging to identify a simple mechanism that explains how FNDC3 proteins work. In a…
Interdisciplinary Case Study: Mathematicians and Biologists Found Order in Cellular Noise
During development, cells take cues from their immediate environment to decide their fate, but it is not always easy to “hear” the relevant information among…
Wound healing is a complex process that involves intricate interplay among multiple skin and immune cell types. When optimal conditions are achieved, wounds can heal by true regeneration, when new hairs and new adipose tissue…
Dr. Luderer’s lab showed that irradiation of adult female mice with heavy iron ions, typical of deep space radiation exposures during a Mars mission, led to a four-fold increase in epithelial ovarian tumors in late middle…