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2021 Anti-Cancer Challenge Webinar Series
It’s that time again! Register today for the virtual 2021 UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge. This year, the virtual event makes it easier than ever to participate. You can ride, run or walk from wherever you are! Fundraising commitments start at $25 dollars to be raised or donated for children, $50 for adults and a $500 VIP option. Every dollar you raise as a participant will support lifesaving cancer research at the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
2021 Virtual Anti-Cancer Challenge
Whether you ride, run or walk in the 2021 UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge—or in the fitness challenges leading up to this year’s virtual event day—your participation and fundraising WILL help to change what it means to be diagnosed with cancer.
Grand Opening UCI Prostate Cancer Center: Care You Can Count On
UCI Urology has announced the grand opening of the UCI Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Center, a newly formed multidisciplinary clinic including prostate cancer experts from urology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, diagnostic radiology, and pathology at UCI Health. All of these specialists collaborate with the common goal of providing the highest quality personalized cancer care in a unique comfortable environment.
PD-1 Inhibitor Prevails in Recurrent/Metastatic Cervical Cancer
The chemotherapy-free treatment was associated with significantly better quality of life, reported Krishnansu S. Tewari, MD, of the University of California Irvine, during a European Society for Medical Oncology Virtual Plenary.
Nicole Hobbs
UCI Health cancer care expansion gets $20 million from long-time benefactor
Behind the name on the building that will open a couple of years from now as UCI Health’s new cancer care center, next to the UC Irvine campus, is a more than 25-year commitment — and a $20 million gift toward expanding access to that care. The gift is the single biggest donation toward what will be known as the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care at the new UCI Medical Center in Irvine. And it brings the Chao family’s financial commitment to fighting cancer at UCI Health to a whopping $50 million since 1995.
UCI receives record $592 million in research funding for fiscal 2020-21
From cutting-edge research for advancing precision medicine to an innovative new effort for improving public water infrastructure to increase conservation, University of California, Irvine scholars, scientists and physicians are blazing new paths to help change the world. And their impact keeps growing. In fiscal 2020-21, which ended June 30, UCI received the most research funding in campus history: $592 million in grants and contracts.
Advisory Boards
The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center brings together the expertise of external advisors who are leaders and content experts in their respective scientific, business and lay communities. Together, these boards guide the Cancer Center on their mission and vision.
BTK Inhibitors Represent the Preferred Frontline Regimen in CLL
The majority of patients with newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have better outcomes with BTK inhibitors compared with standard chemoimmunotherapy, making them the logical choice for frontline therapy, explained Susan O’Brien, MD, in a virtual presentation during the 2021 Pan Pacific Lymphoma Conference.
Dad diagnosed with cancer receives life-saving stem cell transplant at UCI Health
Dr. Stefan O. Ciurea, a UCI Health hematologist and director of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, said stem cell transplants aren’t readily available everywhere because it takes a huge team.
Disparities Affect Care of Young Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors in LA
Young adult childhood cancer survivors (CCS) in Los Angeles face age and ethnic disparities leading to inadequate follow-up care, a survey study suggests. The findings aren't globally generalizable "due to different healthcare access/systems/insurance factors," Dr. Joel Milam of the University of Southern California, Irvine, told Reuters Health by email.
Grant MacGregor
Jon Neumann
Transgenic Mouse Facility (TMF)
The UC Irvine Transgenic Mouse Facility (TMF) is a core facility that provides services on a recharge basis for making, breeding, genotyping, importing, and preserving genetically-modified mice and embryonic stem cells. In addition to academic clients at UCI, we also service academic investigators at several other sister UC-campuses and numerous other universities throughout the USA as well as providing these services to commercial clients.
UCI receives $700K from the City of Santa Ana to support new initiatives for health literacy, address barriers to COVID-19 resources in vulnerable populations
Professor of epidemiology Sora Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH, one of UCI’s two principal investigators (PIs) on the project, commented, “The City of Santa Ana’s investment shows their continued commitment to better understanding barriers to care and implementing real world strategies to improve the health and well-being of our county’s most vulnerable populations.”
Rahul Warrior
Mihaela Balu
Jennifer Atwood
Optical Biology Core
The Optical Biology Center is a Shared Resource Facility to provide researchers access to resources, including state of the art instrumentation and technical support, to conduct biomedical research.
Robert Edwards