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.
With their election, Rina Dechter, Catherine Lord and Jennifer Martiny join 38 other current and former UC Irvine scholars as academy members.
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...
Postdoctoral scholar Liz Ortiz and Assistant Professor Travis Wiles track the movement of phages by tagging them with fluorescent markers. Photo credit: Ritwik Kumar. Irvine, Calif., April 18, 2025 — In a world where gut health is increasingly linked to everything...