May 30, 2023

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Courageous Corazones

A pilot intervention is helping Latinx families care for their children with cancer. Corazones Unidos Por Una Vida (Hearts United for Life) is a prototype program of support for Latinx families with children who are undergoing cancer treatment at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. It is designed and driven by Associate Professor Michelle Fortier, a clinical psychologist and pediatric pain expert at the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and UCI Center on Stress and Health. Fortier is also a CFCCC member.

May 25, 2023

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Celebrating decades long UC Irvine legacy and impact on cancer research & public health interventions

Professor of population health and disease prevention and general internal medicine – Lari Wenzel, PhD, from the UCI Program in Public Health and the School of Medicine, is retiring at the end of June after 27 years of campus service. She leaves an outstanding legacy of achievements and a portfolio of valuable cancer research. Her contributions to the public health field are truly remarkable and her impact on countless students, faculty, and communities around the nation cannot be overstated.

May 02, 2023

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Cancer Control Members receive School of Medicine New Investigator Faculty Research Grant

Drs. Jacqueline Kim, Sunmin Lee, and Edward Kuan, Cancer Control Members, receive School of Medicine New Investigator Faculty Research Grant. The overall goal of this funding mechanism is to help early-stage investigators in the School of Medicine obtain extramural funding and to promote collaborative interdisciplinary research.

Apr 24, 2023

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Getting better results with “GET” therapy for young adult testicular cancer survivors

Associate professor of population health and disease prevention, Michael Hoyt, PhD, developed new behavioral therapy that he and his collaborators suggest could provide much needed support to young adult testicular cancer survivors. Their research is published in the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Apr 13, 2023

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Hallmarks to improving pancreatic cancer therapy identified by UCI researchers

Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Michigan and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have made a significant contribution to the field of pancreatic cancer research. Their new study presents several crucial themes in the biology of pancreatic cancer that can serve as hallmarks for pancreatic cancer therapy. These themes include genomic alterations, metabolism, the tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy and innovative clinical trial design. The study appears in the journal Cell.