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News & Announcements
2020
Date
Description
APR 1
Turning Colon Cancer Cells Around
MAR 30
Protecting Cancer Patients from COVID-19
MAR 18
UC Irvine chemistry professors develop method for early cancer detection
MAR 12
Setting her sights on a future without rectal cancer
MAR 8
Professor Greg Weiss and collaborators have developed a method of detecting cancer molecules within minutes, a breakthrough that could save lives
MAR 5
AI colonoscopy detects precancerous polyps
MAR 3
Starve a tumor, feed a cell: How cancers can resist drugs
FEB 25
Pancreatic cancer discovered during pregnancy
JAN 29
Battling Brain Cancer on All Fronts
2019
Date
Description
OCT 8
Three UCI early-career researchers receive 2019 NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards
OCT 4
Turning Grief Into Action
OCT 4
Beating colon cancer with AI
OCT 2
UCI, other researchers develop deep-learning technique to ID at-risk anatomy in CT scans
SEP 20
UCI engineering researchers get $1.9 million grant from NIH for ‘microtsunami’ microscope
AUG 29
UCI Startup Amberstone Biosciences Receives Grant for $225,000
AUG 22
Oral Cancer Screening Technology Makes Big Impact on Underserved Community
JUL 22
American Cancer Society honors UCI Health oncology chief Edward L. Nelson, MD
JUL 08
UCI team pioneers cancer treatment that targets bone metastases while sparing bone
JUL 01
UCI researchers to join national effort to build atlas of human breast cells
JUL 1
UCI’s third annual Anti-Cancer Challenge sets fundraising record
JUN 27
UCI doctors offer minimally-invasive treatment for early esophageal cancer
JUN 24
5 junior faculty awarded $50,000 Hellman Fellowships
JUN 19
UCI biomedical engineer co-authors guide for federal investing in synthetic biology research
MAY 30
UCI research helps shed new light on circadian clocks
MAY 15
Study touts new method to reduce cognitive side effects of brain cancer radiation treatment
APR 22
UCI to establish skin biology, diseases resource center with $4 million NIH award
APR 16
UCI researcher creates videos and messages to boost vaccination rates and cancer screenings within Orange County's Vietnamese community.
APR 15
New grants and studies give UCI researchers the chance to make a profound difference
APR 05
Droplet screening set to accelerate immunotherapies into the clinic
MAR 28
Dual-drug therapy may boost odds against a tough breast cancer
MAR 12
Taking on tumors
JAN 14
Brain cancer patient is the first to get untested treatment.
2018
Date
Description
DEC 12
Dr. Abraham Lee is named a fellow of National Academy of Inventors.
NOV 14
Scientists engineer a better way to direct evolution.
NOV 06
New immunotherapy technique can specifically target tumor cells, UCI study reports.
OCT 26
Registration opens soon for the 2019 Anti-Cancer Challenge
OCT 25
UCI Health improves cancer screening by pairing colonoscopies with AI technology
OCT 15
Funding Opportunity: 2018-19 Anti-Cancer Challenge Research Funding Competition
OCT 01
School of Medicine research team is awarded $3.4 million Cancer Moonshot initiative grant
SEP 10
Study of scarless wound healing goes digital with 5-year, $3.3 million NIH grant to UCI trio
SEP 06
UCI-led study reveals communication among organs, tissues regulating body’s energy
AUG 17
Funding Opportunity: Single-cell RNA-seq Pilot and Feasibility Awards
JUN 28
New study identifies anti-cancer effect of statins
JUN 06
UCI establishes the Center for Cancer Systems Biology with a $10-million, five-year National Cancer Institute grant.
MAY 25
UCI Center on Stress & Health awarded $6.3 million by National Institutes of Health
MAY 09
American Association for Cancer Research-Aflac Inc. awards $100,000 to UCI cancer biologist Claudia Benavente
JAN 31
UC Irvine scientists develop new chemical tool to study RNA structures inside cells
JAN 19
UC Irvine lands $1-million Keck Foundation grant to develop new RNA tools
2017
Date
Description
DEC 18
Christine E. McLaren, PhD, receives the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who
OCT 09
Cancer Center member Andrej Luptak recipient of Pew Innovation Fund award
SEP 13
UC cancer centers join forces to fight one of California's top killers
JUL 26
A stem cell-based therapy developed by UC Irvine researchers selectively targets and kills cancer tissue without the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.
JUL 21
UC Irvine neuro-oncologist Dr. Daniela Bota discusses glioblastoma, the type of brain tumor diagnosed in U.S. Sen. John McCain, with CBS Los Angeles.
JUN 26
Chao family fights cancer with $5-million gift to endow chairs for top cancer researchers.
JUN 14
Thousands participate in inaugural Anti-Cancer Challenge to raise funds for cancer research.
MAY 13
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Dr. Richard Van Etten explains how his mother motivated him to fight to eradicate cancer.
MAY 10
$1.25-million gift will fund research for cancer therapy and regenerative medicine
MAR 07
UC Irvine researchers led by Dr. Anand K. Ganesan have identified a key mutation that allows melanoma tumor cells to hide from the body's immune system.
FEB 28
How to respond to soaring rates of colorectal cancer in young adults is a challenge for health providers, UC Irvine oncologist Dr. Jason Zell tells the New York Times.
FEB 24
Stern Center Director Susan O'Brien, MD, discusses frontline treatment options for patients with newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukemia in a video for Cancer Network.
FEB 10
Study of Twitter-based smoking cessation program gets $2.5 million from NIH
FEB 01
Mathematician Qing Nie awarded foundation grant to study cancer drug resistance
JAN 04
Restyling nature’s designs to create cancer-fighting vaccines