Congratulations to Andrea Tenner, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Neurobiology & Behavior, who has been selected to receive the 2025 Hans Müller-Eberhard Award from the...
The UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences is proud to announce that seven of its faculty members have been selected as 2024 awardees of the UC Irvine Anti-Cancer Challenge, a community-based initiative that raises funds to support promising cancer...
Assistant Professor Evgeny Kvon and graduate student Grace Bower. Irvine, Calif., July 2, 2025 — How do cells know which genes to activate, and when? For decades, scientists have puzzled over how distant parts of our DNA — sometimes millions of base pairs apart — can...
The University of California, Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) is proud to announce that postdoctoral fellow Jean Paul Chadarevian, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation. The...
Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the BrightFocus Foundation’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research program. The two-year, $200,000 grant will support her...
CCR2+ (red, monocytes) cells enter the brain parenchyma from the velum interpositum (blue, laminin). CX3CR1+ cells (green) represent resident macrophages or microglia. Photo credit: Rocio Barahona, Lindsay Hohsfield, and Kim Green. Irvine, Calif., June 3, 2025 —...
Irvine, Calif., May 15, 2025 — Inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, Alzheimer’s and even certain rare genetic disorders affect millions worldwide and often have few effective treatment options. A new study from the lab of Assistant Professor Reginald McNulty at...
The UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences is proud to recognize and celebrate five outstanding students from the Class of 2025 who have been honored with the Chancellor’s Award of Distinction — one of the highest honors bestowed upon graduating...
Each spring, UC Irvine’s campus comes alive with ideas, energy and discovery as undergraduate researchers take the spotlight. During April and May, the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences hosts research presentations that are the culmination of its...
Professor Diego A. Pizzagalli is lead investigator for this study.