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31st edition | March 2025 Dear Colleagues, Welcome to March! ​​​​​​The coming of spring means the start of many events around campus, including Match Day 2025! We are thrilled to celebrate with more than 100 medical students on March 21 as they discover where they will spend the next three to seven years of their medical training. You can plan to join the festivities in person and/or watch them via live streaming.  Read More

UC Irvine School of Medicine associate professor awarded Inoue Prize for Science Kei Igarashi, PhD, recognized for outstanding achievement in memory and dementia research. Read More   Clemons Family Foundation donates $11 million to support advanced cancer research Gift will also aid medical innovation building construction and UCI Health – Irvine. Read More

Through their eyes and in their voices: UC PRIME alums reflect on 20 years The UC Prime programs have educated more than 800 physicians over the last two decades. Read More   UCI-HBCU joint program to return in 2025 The UCI-HBCU (Historically Black Colleges/Universities) Summer Research and Clinical Program is the latest in a long chronology of partnerships between UC campuses and HBCUs and will return in 2025. Read More

Neuroscientist awarded $4.6 million for promising pan-cancer immunotherapy The grant was given to Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD, to accelerate his lab’s groundbreaking work on genetically modified chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. Read More   Answers for Cancers The UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge supports promising studies, including the Stopgap trial. Read More

Maybe we should listen: Allergies from sesame to sunscreen may aggravate hair loss | Healio Kill right turns on red; they’re dangerous study finds | The OC Register Cancer-Fighting Compound Shows Immense Potential to Eradicate HIV | Medical Xpress 25 Ways to Boost Wellness in 2025 | Irvine Standard UCI Psychiatrist Praises the Benefits of Social Connections | Irvine Standard Best Immunity Boosters | U.S. News & World Report AK+Guard for Hyperkalemia Detection | Doc Wire News SEE ALL NEWS March 10-13 – 44th Annual Mammoth Mountain Emergency Medicine Conference March 21 – Match Day 2025 March 25 – The Physician Scientist Collective Distinguished Speaker Series April 22-23 – Dean​​​​​​​’s Distinguished Lecture Series  SEE ALL EVENTS UC Irvine School of Medicine Strategic Plan UCI Health SOMNews@uci.edu

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