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Sep 02, 2026 | UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Member, Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD - The Sweet Spot in Cancer Immunotherapy
"Once GlyTR grabs hold of a cancer cell, its other end draws a T cell into contact with it and destroys it."
Cancer In Focus - Events, Funding Opportunities, Announcements, News, Research Services, & Resources
Events, Funding Opportunities, Announcements, & News
September 02, 2026
Sep 02, 2026 | UC Irvine In the News
Member, Philip Felgner, PhD - What Doctors Want You to Know About the New 'Personalized' Cancer Vaccine Making Headlines
“This is the first large phase 3 study to demonstrate meaningful clinical benefit from an individualized mRNA cancer vaccine.”
Sep 01, 2026 | UC Irvine In the News
Members, Francesco Marangoni, PhD; John Lowengrub, PhD - Math and Medicine Join Forces to Solve a Cancer Mystery
Scientists uncover a key cause of immunotherapy failure – and a path to overcoming it
Member, Suellen Hopfer, PhD - Social Media: Reading Between the Lines
"...gives us another window into how people are experiencing heat in their daily lives"
Sep 01, 2026 | UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Member, Chang Liu, PhD – Is This the Breakthrough Drug Development We’ve Been Waiting For?
His lab developed a system called OrthoRep, which allows proteins to evolve rapidly and continuously inside yeast cells.
Aug 27, 2026
Office of Research Launches FundOpp Match
With an AI assist, FundOpp Match filters and matches external funding opportunities to UCI research areas.
Aug 27, 2026 | UC Irvine Digest
Member, Shawn Griffin, PharmD - Cancer Treatment Saves Lives Without Dangerous Side Effects
"...existing drugs that may be repurposed..." versus "...developing entirely new drugs."
Aug 24, 2026 | UCI Health
Member, Lauren Pinter-Brown, MD - Renowned Lymphoma Physician Thanked by Patient
Video: Anti-Cancer Challenge patient, Bransby Whitton, expresses gratitude for "world-class care”
Members, Leslie Thompson, PhD; Jefferson Chen, MD, PhD - Behind the World’s First Neural Stem Cell Clinical Trial to Treat Huntington’s Disease
REGEN4HD aims to enroll 21 patients in early stages of the incurable genetic disorder