News & Announcements

2018

Date	Description
OCT 15	Funding Opportunity: 2018-19 Anti-Cancer Challenge Research Funding Competition
OCT 1	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 6	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