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Latest News & Events

2019

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SEP 19	Certain diets may help cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and related cardiovascular problems in older women with Type 2 diabetes, according to new research from UCI epidemiologist Andrew Odegaard, PhD, MPH.

2018

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OCT 10	Epidemiology Chair Karen Edwards, PhD, is featured in a video on leadership profiles at the 2018 annual meeting for the American Society of Human Genetics.
OCT 10	SOM Grad Day. Time: 2:30-5:30 p.m., Sprague Hall, Gillespie Hal, and SOM outside courtyard. Events include poster presentations, demonstrations, a raffle, T-shirts, food (Oct 12th) and a faculty vs. students soccer game (Oct 10th).
SEP 25	Welcome Week for Graduate Students hosted by Associated Graduate Students: SEP 25-29, 2018
MAY 01	UCI calls for volunteers as NIH’s landmark $1.5-billion precision medicine research effort, All of Us, launches nationwide.

2017

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NOV 29	UCI epidemiologist Christine McLaren, PhD, is awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who.
OCT 02	Karen L. Edwards, PhD, a pioneer in the field of public health genomics, is named chair of the Department of Epidemiology for the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
SEP 18	UCI receives $200 million gift to name College of Health Sciences and launch major integrative health initiative.
JUN 10-11	The Anti-Cancer Challenge: the UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is launching an exciting new two day event on June 10-11, 2017 at Angel Stadium.
JAN 17	Developing high blood pressure late in life may actually help protect against dementia, according to a new study by UC Irvine neurology professor Maria Carrada-Bravo, PhD.

2016

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OCT 13	UCI epidemiologist Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD, to co-lead an ambitious statewide precision medicine effort.
SEP 29	UC Irvine researchers, led by Dr. Pathik Wadhwa, to participate in major federal effort to improve childhood health.

2015

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APR 06	UC Irvine’s Ralph J. Delfino, MD, PhD, led study which examined the effect of chronic exposure in asthmatic children living in homes near traffic pollution.

2014

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NOV 12	UCI School of Medicine epidemiology and hematology researchers receive NIH award to study hemochromatosis.
OCT 23	UCI receives NIH grant to improve options for doctoral graduates across science-related careers
OCT 16	Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD, talks to the Orange County Register about breast cancer discoveries in the Athena Breast Health Network

2012

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JUN 05	Dr. Jason Zell receives the School of Medicine’s 2012 Junior Physician-Scientist Award for research achievements in the fight against cancer.
MAY 31	UC Irvine campus ranked fourth among young universities worldwide by "Times Higher Education" publication
MAY 17	Epidemiology doctoral candidate Richard Ahn co-authors research paper on celiac disease in the journal PLoS One.
APR 26	Call 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 01	Dr. Hannah Park receives one-year pilot research award from UCI's Institute for Clinical and Translational Science to assist in the development of plasma methylation markers for breast cancer
FEB 09	Status updates for those applicants who submitted online applications prior to the January 2012 deadline.

2011

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AUG 04	UC Irvine named among 'Best in the West' by Princeton Review College Rankings
AUG 02	UC 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 02	Prenatal stress linked to premature aging in UCI Health study - OC Register
JUL 26	UCI Health physicians on new “Top Doctors” list for 2011
JUL 13	Professors Argyrios Ziogas, 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 28	New study proves that long-term mammography screening saves lives, according to UC Irvine breast imaging expert Dr. Feig
MAY 18	Video: Revolutionary statewide UC collaboration targets breast cancer [The Athena Project]
APR 28	UCI professor Ralph Delfino is awarded $3.2 million for pollution-impact research
APR 15	Dr. 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 07	UCI Health'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 01	The 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 31	UCI professors Christine McLaren, Chad Garner and colleagues have successfully identified a genetic loci associated with iron deficiency
MAR 15	Adolescent and young adult cancer patients are neither children nor adults and require targeted care according to several pioneers
MAR 05	Doctoral student Leona Bessonova, MS, 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 18	Professor 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 01	Physician-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 27	UCI Health boasts 94 Best Doctors in America and more physicians listed than any other medical facility in Orange County for 2011-12
JAN 12	Professor 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 10	UC Irvine's Jun Wu wins $450,000 research award to study adverse reproductive health outcomes associated with exposure to air pollution
JAN 05	Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranks UC Irvine 17th on their Top 100 list of affordable top tier universities

2010

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NOV 29	UCI Health Drs. Christine McLaren and Frank L. Meyskins Jr. show that skin cancer prevention could involve using the pain killer Celebrex.
NOV 10	UCI Health oncologist Dr. Ignatius Ou takes aim at the deadliest cancer: Non-small cell lung cancer study highlights advances in targeted drug therapy
NOV 01	UCI Health oncologist Dr. Ignatius Ou reports promising findings using a drug that therapeutically targets specific gene mutations in small-cell lung cancer tumors
OCT 21	An "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 01	UCI investigators 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 20	Erin Kent, PhD, a June 2010 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 14	UC Irvine Medical Center makes ‘America’s Best Hospitals’ list for 10th consecutive year
MAY 05	UCI's Dwight Culver receives award for commitment and dedication to the field of national and international worker health and safety.

2009

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OCT 09	UCI 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 28	UC Irvine epidemiologists join the University of California's historic research effort to screen 150,000 for breast cancer
JAN 07	Professors 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 19	Fire smoke ails lungs, UC Irvine's Dr. Ralph Delfino shows
NOV 18	Dr. Ralph Delfino finds hospital visits for respiratory illnesses spiked during recent Southern California wildfires