Orange, Calif. — UCI Health psychiatrist Dr. Cameron S. Carter has been awarded the 2024 Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience Research by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation's (BBRF) Scientific Council. Carter will accept the award on Oct. 25 in New York City during the BBRF 2024…
Experts at the UC Davis College of Engineering and California Department of Public Health developed a new video series about improving indoor air quality.
Symptoms and disease progression of Rett syndrome are different in females than males. A new MIND Institute study shows why it is important to understand these differences to develop better treatments.
A UC San Francisco-based research registry that has already recruited more than 10,000 Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander participants has received $16 million in federal funding to double its efforts and expand research into this growing but underrepresented population of the U.S. population.
IN THE NEWS: The new surgical “megafloor” under construction at the acute care hospital on the UCI Health ― Irvine campus will streamline operations, reduce waste and errors and enable more inpatient and outpatient procedures. The 56,000-square-foot space, which connects inpatient and outpatient operating rooms over two buildings, was recently…
IN THE NEWS: The need for neurologists outpaces the supply in most states. Dr. Claire Henchcliffe, a neurologist at UCI Health, recently spoke with Neurology Live about how the shortage could negatively impact research in the field. “It’s not just a shortage of neurologists. We won’t have enough neurologists to…
Orange, Calif. — The UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is the first National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in California to offer a novel technology using highly focused sound waves to precisely destroy liver tumors in a single outpatient procedure. On Sept. 10, Dr. Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh and her…
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers discover a groundbreaking oral breast cancer drug that is also effective in treating a rare form of appendix cancer.
The cancer center joined Peach Tree Health clinics to examine cervical cancer rates in underserved women and study whether HPV testing and vaccines can help.
Orange, Calif. — UC Irvine emergency medicine expert Dr. Federico Vaca, one of the nation’s leading researchers on motor vehicle crash injuries and prevention, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the potential of an age-based, early-alcohol-exposure risk assessment policy to reduce crash injuries…
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