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Aug 26, 2024
Internationally recognized cancer expert joins UCI Health as cancer center deputy director
Internationally recognized cancer expert Dr. Miguel A. Villalona-Calero has joined the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center as its deputy director and chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
Jul 22, 2024 | UCI Health
Community open house celebrates new facilities at UCI Health ― Irvine
UCI Health hosted a vibrant community open house on Saturday, July 20, to celebrate the opening of the Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building at the new UCI Health – Irvine medical complex. The afternoon event welcomed hundreds of community members and UCI Health co-workers to the new medical complex at 19200 Jamboree Road in Irvine.
Jul 19, 2024 | UCI Health
UCI Health first in region to use new CT imaging technology
UCI Health has become the first Southern California health system to offer advanced photon-counting computed tomography scanning, which features higher resolution scanning at a fraction of the time necessary for traditional CT imaging. The first patients were scanned on July 16 at the new Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building on the UCI Health ― Irvine medical campus.
Jul 17, 2024 | UCI Health
UCI Health welcomes first patients to new Irvine cancer center
The UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center opened its second clinical hub on July 16, marking a significant milestone in cancer care for Orange County.
Jul 15, 2024 | UCI News
UC Irvine’s electronic patient-reported outcome tool reduces cancer care disparities
A University of California, Irvine research team has developed and implemented an intervention to enhance cancer care support services for racial and ethnic minority patients undergoing chemotherapy. The electronic patient-reported outcome tool is a web-based application that allows individuals to enter their health data into a smartphone, tablet or computer.
Jun 10, 2024
‘Cutting the cable’ between CD8+ T and T regulatory cells enhances checkpoint immunotherapy
“Our latest research reveals that CD8+ T cells, activated by PD-1 blockade to target melanoma, also interact with T regulatory cells, which subsequently dampen the immune response against the tumor,” said corresponding author Francesco Marangoni, UC Irvine assistant professor of physiology & biophysics.
Jun 04, 2024
UCI Health cancer specialists share research at national forum
UCI Health cancer clinicians and scientists presented key findings and insights that will help advance cancer research and care at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), one of the world’s largest scientific gatherings in the field.
May 31, 2024
UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge awards $1 million for promising cancer research
The UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge has awarded $1 million raised in 2023 to fund a new round of transformative research projects at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and its pediatric cancer affiliate, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC).
May 28, 2024
UC Irvine study reveals circadian clock can be leveraged to enhance cancer immunotherapy
A multidisciplinary research team at the University of California, Irvine has revealed that the circadian clock – the biological pacemaker that governs daily rhythms in physiological processes, including immune functions – can be leveraged to enhance the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitor cancer therapy. Checkpoint inhibitors block different proteins from binding to tumor cells, allowing the immune system’s T cells to kill the tumor.
May 03, 2024
Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care Center opens its doors
The first part of the construction of UCI Health ― Irvine is complete with the opening of the Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care on May 1.The second phase of the $1.3 billion Irvine medical complex, the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building, will open to patients in July.