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2012

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APR. 26Call for Applications from UC Irvine PhD or MD students. This NIH-funded (TL-1) training program is designed to integrate training in clinical research & translational science into the core curriculum of students in medicine, public health, nursing, pharmaceutical sciences, biomedical & social sciences, physical sciences, engineering, & informatics. Submission DEADLINE is June 4, 2012.
APR. 1Dr. Hannah Park received a 1-yr pilot research award from UC Irvine's Institute for Clinical and Translational Science to assist in the development of plasma methylation markers for breast cancer
FEB. 9Status Updates for those applicants who submitted online applications prior to the January 2012 deadline.

2011

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AUG. 4UC Irvine named among 'Best in the West' by Princeton Review College Rankings
AUG. 2UC Irvine researchers awarded $400,000 by the National Institutes of Health to study the potential effects of global climate change on public health, particularly asthma in children.
AUG. 2Prenatal stress linked to premature aging in UC Irvine study - OC Register
JUL. 26UC Irvine physicians on new “Top Doctors” list for 2011
JUL. 13Dr. Argyrios Ziogas, Dr. Hoda Anton-Culver and colleagues test how new cancers in the family influence a person's changing cancer risk and candidacy for enhanced screening.
JUL. 12"Family history of cancer can be an evolving story" - Los Angeles Times
JUN. 28New study proves that long-term mammography screening saves lives, according to UC Irvine breast imaging expert Dr. Feig
MAY. 18Video: Revolutionary statewide UC collaboration targets breast cancer [The Athena Project]
MAY. 09Oncologist Dr. Leonard Sender and colleagues launch new, peer-reviewed scientific publication to address the unique issues that are confronted in cases of adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer
APR. 28UC Irvine's Ralph Delfino awarded $3.2 million for pollution-impact research
APR. 15Dr. Ralph Delfino & colleagues awarded 5-year, $3.2 million to study, “Transcriptomic, Oxidative Stress, & Inflammatory Responses to Air Pollutants”- among the first to use repeated measurements to analyze specific traffic related air pollutants and genome-wide gene expression patterns in peripheral blood cells of Los Angeles air basin residents.
APR. 07UC Irvine’s Breast Health Center has been granted a full three-year accreditation by the American College of Surgeons, the nation’s preeminent standards-setting body for surgical practice and education.
APR. 01The Dean's Report: Quarterly newsletter highlighting the advances and achievements of UC Irvine's School of Medicine. In the report, readers will find details about the accomplishments of the medical school as it continues to fulfill its mission: Discover. Teach. Heal.
MAR. 31UC Irvine Drs. Christine McLaren, Chad Garner and colleagues have successfully identified a genetic loci associated with iron deficiency
MAR. 15Adolescent and young adult cancer patients are neither children nor adults and require targeted care according to several pioneers
MAR. 05Doctoral student Leona Bessonova, M.S., was invited by the American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) to present her research findings on the risk of a second breast cancer associated with hormone receptors while at ASPO's 35th Annual Meeting
FEB. 18Professor Chad Garner to present "High-Throughput Sequencing and the Role of Rare Alleles in Complex Human Disease" at Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics Symposium - Calit2 Auditorium - 2:50 PM
FEB. 01Physician-researcher Dr. Ralph Delfino and colleagues find "Electrocardiographic ST-segment depression and exposure to traffic-related aerosols in elderly subjects with coronary artery disease"
Jan. 27UC Irvine boasts 94 Best Doctors in America and more physicians listed than any other medical facility in Orange County for 2011-12
JAN. 12Professor Christine McLaren's research group has been awarded a fifth year grant extension of the multi-centre National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute research study to identify cases of iron deficiency and controls from a multi-ethnic cohort of 100K+ adults enrolled in the Haemochromatosis and Iron Overload Screening (HEIRS) Study
JAN. 10UC Irvine's Jun Wu wins $450,000 research award to study adverse reproductive health outcomes associated with exposure to air pollution
JAN. 05Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranks UC Irvine 17th on their Top 100 list of affordable top tier universities

2010

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NOV. 29UC Irvine professors Christine McLaren and Frank L. Meyskins Jr. show that skin cancer prevention could involve using the pain killer Celebrex
NOV. 10UC Irvine's Dr. Ignatius Ou is taking aim at the deadliest cancer: Non-small cell lung cancer study highlights advances in targeted drug therapy
NOV. 09Dr. Leonard Sender, director of clinical oncology services at UC Irvine's Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, tells the Wall Street Journal about young-adult cancer patients' special needs
NOV. 01Dr. Ignatius Ou, UC Irvine oncologist, reports promising findings using a drug that therapeutically targets specific gene mutations in small-cell lung cancer tumors
OCT. 21An "On The Air" broadcast by the AQMD features Dr. Ralph Delfino, physician-researcher, talking about the effects of traffic-related chemical pollutants on chronic diseases
OCT. 01UC Irvine investigators, Drs. Patrick Wadhwa and Scott Bartell, have been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for a pregnancy study
SEPT. 20Dr. Erin Kent, a June 2010 UC Irvine PhD Graduate in Epidemiology, has been awarded a National Cancer Institute's prestigious Cancer Prevention Fellowship for 2010/11. She will do her Postdoctoral Research at NCI's Office of Cancer Survivorship in Bethesda, MD.
JUL. 14UC Irvine Medical Center makes ‘America’s Best Hospitals’ list for 10th consecutive year
MAY. 05Dr. Dwight Culver of UC Irvine receives award for commitment and dedication to the field of national and international worker health and safety

2009

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OCT. 09UC Irvine professor Rufus Edwards to introduce a China case study at Newkirk Center Conference on "Stopping the Pollution of the Planet: Priorities of Environmental Law & Health" - Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering - 2:15 - 5 PM
SEPT. 28UC Irvine epidemiologists join the University of California's historic research effort to screen 150,000 for breast cancer
MAR. 06Dr. Leonard Sender discusses the special situation of our younger population diagnosed with leukemia
JAN. 07Professors Gorham, Delfino, Staimer and colleagues find "Ethane and n-pentane in exhaled breath are biomarkers of exposure not effect"

2008

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NOV. 19Fire smoke ails lungs, UC Irvine's Dr. Ralph Delfino shows
NOV. 18Dr. Ralph Delfino finds hospital visits for respiratory illnesses spiked during recent Southern California wildfires
AUG. 11Dr. Leonard Sender discusses issues pertaining to age and outcome differences among cancer patients and especially among adolescents and young adults cancer patients
JAN. 17Dr. Christine McLaren and colleagues report on "Iron-Overload–Related Disease in HFE Hereditary Hemochromatosis" in 'New England Journal of Medicine' publication