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44th edition | June 2026 Dear Colleagues, It’s remarkable that just six months have passed since the successful opening of the nation’s first all-electric hospital, UCI Health – Irvine. Read the Dean's Full Message School of Medicine Class of 2026: Changemakers Ready to Reimagine Care May 16 kicked off commencement season for the UC Irvine School of Medicine, with Dean Michael J. Stamos welcoming the MD class of 2026 — and their biggest supporters — to the Bren Events Center. Read More

$8 Million Gift Supports Neurosciences Clinic at UCI Health — Irvine Medical Campus The gift will also bolster collaborative research in movement disorders within the Department of Neurology at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. Read More   W. M. Keck Foundation Gives $1.2 Million to UC Irvine to Support Early-Career Scientists Six UC Irvine research teams were selected for funding, underscoring the university’s strength in advancing innovative, high-impact science. Read More

Researchers Discover Cellular "Tug-of-War" That Shapes How Our Genes Are Expressed Two crucial steps in processing genetic messages — splicing and 3′ end processing — actively compete with each other to shape what RNA molecules are generated. Read More   Save the Brain, Kill the Cancer: Extracellular Vesicle (EV) Treatment for Glioblastoma Patients UC Irvine researchers find that human neural stem-cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) improve cognitive function following glioma chemoradiation therapy. Read More

Reimagining School Fitness Testing to Advance Pediatric Health Dan M. Cooper, MD, has co-authored a paper with recommendations for turning school-based fitness testing into a useful and predictive biomarker of pediatric health. Read More   2026 Knights Templar Eye Foundation Research Grant Yexuan Cao, MD, PhD, was awarded this year's career-starter $100,000 grant, which will support her research into the genetic mechanisms of childhood-onset blindness. Read More

Honored for Excellence in Health for the Latino Community At UC Irvine’s ninth annual Latine Excellence and Achievement Award Dinner (LEAD), MD/PhD student Bianca Leonard was honored for graduate student excellence in health at the intersection of neuroscience and mental health. Read More   2026 Robert & Sylvia Mapel Research Innovation Awardees Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, and Eleonora Risaliti, a graduate student researcher in the same department, have been named this year's awardees. Read More

New Hospital: A Bridge to Independent Living UCI Health – Irvine Rehabilitation Hospital will be Orange County’s only academic rehabilitation hospital, and will have a dedicated wing for inpatient cancer rehabilitation. Read More   Rising Stars Driven by Collaboration and Community Crystal M. Glover, PhD, and Ryan Gibney, MD, were honored with the Spring 2026 Rising Stars award for their impactful collaborations to advance high-quality care. Read More

Reinventing the Model for Type 2 Diabetes Research and Treatment in Latino/a Population Diabetes strikes earlier, and its complications hit harder in the Latino/a community. Read More   UCI Health — Orange Receives 'A' Grade for Patient Safety and Quality Care This is the 21st time since 2014 that the hospital has received this grade. Read More

Forget LASIK: Safer, Cheaper Vision Correction Without Lasers Or Surgery | ScienceDaily Researchers at UCI Want To Build the Biggest Database Ever on Asian American Health | The Orange County Register 20 Most Trusted Health System Brands | Becker’s Health IT Ancient Forests, Modern Medicine – The Loh Down on Science | NPR 8 Daily Rituals To Help You Manage Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) | Everyday Health Parkinson’s Drug Restores Memories in Alzheimer’s | Neuroscience News SEE ALL NEWS June 5: 2026 Orthopaedic Surgery Annual Symposium June 9: Drury Depression Institute Launch Event June 9: Stem Cell Research Center Community Lecture Series  June 25: AI for Genomics & Data Science with Operon July 3: Independence Day Holiday July 25-26: Fifth Annual Spine by the Sea Symposium July 31: Center for Neuropolitics Lecture Series: The Hostility Habit: How Partisan Expectations Shape Political Conflict  SEE ALL EVENTS UC Irvine School of Medicine Strategic Plan UCI Health SOMNews@uci.edu

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