March 2025  31st edition
A Message from the Dean

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
 
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UC Irvine School of Medicine associate professor awarded Inoue Prize for Science
Kei Igarashi, PhD, recognized for outstanding achievement in memory and dementia research.
 
Clemons Family Foundation donates $11 million to support advanced cancer research
Gift will also aid medical innovation building construction and UCI Health – Irvine.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
Answers for Cancers
The UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge supports promising studies, including the Stopgap trial.
 
School of Medicine In the News

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
 
Calendar

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


 
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