Associate Professor Vivek Swarup of the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences has been awarded a competitive Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant to investigate an emerging area of study in Alzheimer’s disease: the role of oligodendrocytes....
The UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences is proud to share news of a new book co-authored by Professor Georg Striedter, titled Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis, now available from MIT Press. Written in collaboration with fellow avian...
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 —...
Professor Diego A. Pizzagalli is lead investigator for this study.
Diego Pizzagalli, PhD, director of the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries, and Peter Zhukovsky, PhD, Scientist in the Brain Health Imaging Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Irvine, Calif., April 23, 2025 — Finding...
The Dunlop School is proud to announce that Diego Pizzagalli, PhD, founding director of the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 CINP AsCNP Brain Health Clinical Research...
Assistant Professor Eitan Schechtman from the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding early-career faculty. Professor Schechtman’s research explores...