The Department of Developmental and Cell Biology wishes the warmest of congratulations to our 2020 graduates. We know how hard each of you has worked for your achievements and we would like to acknowledge you….
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new mathematical machine-intelligence-based technique that spatially delineates highly complicated cell-to-cell and gene-gene interactions. The powerful method could help with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases…
Professor David Gardiner was recently featured in Knowable Magazine’s special report on “building bodies.” Knowable Magazine is a California-based publication from Annual Reviews— a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science…
Assistant Professor Zeba Wunderlich has recently received a $1M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study non-coding DNA. Unlike coding DNA, which holds the directions for how to build proteins, non-coding DNA includes…
Professor Aimee Edinger and researcher Vaishali Jayashankar have discovered that macropinocytosis makes a previously unappreciated contribution to drug-resistance in solid tumors. Their work, published in Nature Communications, may help overcome an obstacle that is a…
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 UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of…