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June 11, 2025

Events

JUNE 11, 4:00–5:00 PM

Seminar Series by Member, Devon Lawson, PhD

Immune Microenvironment in Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
Location: Plumwood House Lecture Hall and Zoom (email for details)

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JUNE 12, 9:00 AM–4:15 PM

How to Draft and Publish Scientific Papers in High-Impact Journals

UC Irvine School of Medicine, Center for the Study of Cannabis
Location: Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute

JUNE 18, 2025, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM

Role of Dietary Nutrients and Environmental Contaminants in Cancer Survivors

Tuo Lan, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University School of Medicine

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JUNE 23, 2025

Faculty Development Series, School of Medicine, Monthly on Mondays

How to Prepare a Merit / Promotion Review File with Kyoko Yokomori, PhD, and Nimisha Parekh, MD

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JUNE 25, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM

Visium HD Spatial Gene Expression Data Analysis Workshop

UC Irvine Genomics Research & Technology Hub
Location: Medical Education Building, Room 4020

JUNE 25, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM

Chat with UCI Health President & CEO Chad T. Lefteris

Location: Podlich Conference Room, Building 54
Deadline: June 13

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JULY 11-12, 2025

Best of ASCO Annual Meeting

Minneapolis, MN, and online
Essential highlights in two days to stay current on the latest advances in oncology

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2025, 9:25 AM–2:55 PM

NCCN Oncology Policy Summit

The National Press Club, Washington D.C. Discuss policy and practice strategies focused on the rapidly changing AI landscape.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 7:30 AM–5:30 PM

Breaking Barriers: Trailblazing Innovations in Medical Research

Noble Prize Laureate, Gregg Semenza, PhD
Development of inhibitors to treat cancer

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2025

Faculty Development Series, School of Medicine, Monthly on Mondays

AI in Medical Education with Warren Wiechmann, MD, and Julie Youm, PhD

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Funding Opportunities

CCSG Administrative Supplement - LMIC

The UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center seeks to nominate one candidate for a research supplement aimed at strengthening institutional capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
Internal Deadline: June 13

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2025 St. Baldrick's Foundation: Fellowship Awards

1 year | $97,500
UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center seeks to nominate one candidate for pediatric oncology research.
Internal Deadline: June 16

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2025 St. Baldrick's Foundation: Infrastructure Awards

1 year | $25,000-$50,000
UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center seeks to nominate one candidate. Supports institutions aiming to expand participation in childhood cancer clinical trials but lacking key resources.
Internal Deadline: June 16

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2025 Gabrielle's Angel Foundation

1 year | $75,000 ($225,000 total)
UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center seeks to support two promising junior faculty members conducting research in blood-related cancers.
Internal Deadline: July 14

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Integrative & Functional Medicine Fellowship

Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute
Upon completion, eligible physicians will be prepared to sit for the ABOIM board certification.
Deadline: August 15

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A1 Bridge Funding

UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
1 year | $20,000
Award provides funding to support cancer research projects that have the potential to significantly impact cancer treatment, diagnosis, prevention and improve patient outcomes. Intended to provide support to allow investigators to resubmit an NIH grant application for further consideration.
Rolling Deadline

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Research Support Opportunity

UC Irvine Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute
1 year | $2,500
Award provides funding for researchers to utilize the NIH All of Us Research Program data to pursue precision medicine research.
Rolling Deadline

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Announcements

Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp: Closing Ceremony

An inspiring event honoring the completion of a 16-week bootcamp focused on intensive learning, expert mentorship, and practical protocol development to advance investigator-initiated cancer research.

Elevating Mentoring Excellence

The training focused on professional development, enhancing research environments, and supporting NIH T32 grant compliance. Contact kecastel@hs.uci.edu to be added to the interest list.

Epigenetics in Health and Disease, Fall Course 2025, for Graduate Students

BC225 / NB230, Mondays and Thursdays 1:00–2:30 PM

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Donate Blood on June 11 at City Tower in Orange

Save lives and get rewarded! Receive a $10 gift card and be entered to win a night out.

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Office of Community Outreach and Engagement (COE)

UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center – Strengthen your research impact, enhance clinical trial success, gain trusted community insights, increase study relevance, and accelerate accruals.

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ICTS Membership Program Coming this Summer

Enhance and accelerate clinical translational science. The new and free membership will be required to request services.

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Biostatistics Drop-In Consultation, ICTS Services

Tuesdays, 12:00–2:00 PM | The Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design team offers 30-minute informal virtual drop-in sessions. Reservation required.

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REDCap Consultation, ICTS Services

ICTS offers informal drop-in sessions for existing RedCap database issues or for those seeking access training. Additional support can be scheduled as needed after the initial consultation session.

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Team Science Consultation, ICTS Services

Drop-in consultation available the third Monday of every month, 3:30–4:30 PM. Provides consultation across numerous departments to develop better research outcomes from early concept to completion.

Electromotive Forces for Deep Tissue Drug Delivery, 2025 Funded Pilot Project

PI: Pengbo Jiang, MD and Yi Xi Wu | Co-I: Bruce Gao. By using ionizable drugs combined with a mild electrical current, the research aims to significantly improve deep tissue drug delivery.

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Biostatistics Shared Resource (BSR) - In-person Walk-in or Zoom Consultations Available

Wen-pin Chen, MS, Senior Statistician & Manager wenpinc@hs.uci.edu | Book your meeting here. | Location: 200 S, Manchester Ave, Orange, CA 92868, Suite 400, Room 433 or Zoom

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News

Member, Jacqueline Kim, PhD, Expanding the frontier of Asian American cancer research

June 9, 2025 – Special issue published in the Asian American Journal of Psychology

Member, Maksim Plikus, PhD, Discovery Files Podcast, National Science Foundation News

June 5, 2025 – How Regenerative Medicine Is Rebuilding the Human Body

Video

Member, Lan Huang, PhD, Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO, BeyondSpring committed to advancing Plinabulin

June 3, 2025 – Efficacy/safety data presented at ASCO Annual Meeting

Member, Nataliya Mar, MD, presented at 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL

June 3, 2025 – EV-103 Cohort H of neoadjuvant enfortumab vedotin (EV) monotherapy in cisplatin-ineligible patients with MIBC

Member, Roshan Patel, MD, video on impact of saline shortage on IV fluid

May 29, 2025 – “It is possible to conserve fluid when we're trying to do these procedures without compromising patient care.”

Prostate Cancer Myths and Misconceptions, David I. Lee, MD, Director, UCI Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Program

May 29, 2025 – Some cancers spread quickly and don’t produce enough prostate-specific antigen to be detected.

Allen Chao, MD, PhD, one of the founders of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

May 28, 2025 – Provided remarks at the graduation ceremony for UC Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Member, Denise Payán, PhD, and researchers published study in Preventive Medicine Reports

May 22, 2025 – "Misinformation about vaccines and disease prevention continue to be pervasive in our society.

Member, Min Zhang, MD, honored with 2025 ICTS Pilot Award for Innovative Disease Stage Research

May 19, 2025 – The research aims to develop a robust analytical pipeline capable of identifying and classifying disease stages.

Member, Matthew Landry, PhD, RDN, FAND, UC Irvine

May 6, 2025 – Named Spring 2025 UCDC Presidential Faculty Fellow, an honor awarded to just ten scholars nationwide

Resources

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Cancer In Focus prior to June 2025

Contact Information

UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, 200 S. Manchester Ave, Orange, CA 92868, US

cfccccommunications@hs.uci.edu
Phone 714-456-8000

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