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Oct 23, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Member, Munjal Acharya, PhD - UC Irvine Study Identifies a New Approach to Protect the Brain During Radiation Therapy
“This opens a realistic pathway to preserving quality of life for millions of brain cancer survivors currently facing this unmet medical need.”
Oct 23, 2025
Member, David Richardson, PhD - Nuclear Power Plant Workers Report Much Higher Rates of Common Cancers
“We wanted to strengthen the scientific basis for radiation protection by directly studying settings where low-dose exposures occur."
Member, Matthew Landry, PhD, RDN - 6 Plant-Based Foods That Are Surprisingly High in Iron—No Beef Required
Switch up your iron intake with these plant-based options
Member, Matthew Landry, PhD, RDN - Dietitians Warn of 12 Surprising Signs of Iron Deficiency
In severe cases, being low on iron may cause iron-deficiency anemia—when your red blood cells can’t carry enough oxygen because your body doesn’t have the iron it needs to build them properly.
Oct 17, 2025
Member, Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD - New Glycan-Based Diagnostic May Refine Cancer Detection and Treatment
GlyTR Therapeutics, co-founded by Demetriou and his former postdoctoral fellow Raymond W. Zhou, is advancing both the therapeutic and diagnostic platforms
Oct 16, 2025 | NRG Oncology
Member, Alexandre Chan, PharmD, MPH - Receives NRG NCORP Pilot Project Funding for 2025-2027
This project aims to investigate the impact of riluzole on circulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels and preventing decline in neurocognitive function in newly diagnosed patients with cancer who are receiving anthracycline- or platinum-containing chemotherapy.
Oct 15, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Member, Munjal Acharya, PhD - UC Irvine study identifies a new approach to protect the brain during radiation therapy
“We’ve identified a new, targeted way to protect the brain from the harmful side effects of cranial radiation therapy, a standard of care for brain cancers that often causes irreversible cognitive decline."
Oct 13, 2025
Member, Cholsoon Jang, PhD - Scientists crack code on how dietary fiber shields your body from harmful sugar damage
UC Irvine researchers discover inulin fiber trains gut bacteria to block fructose before it harms the liver
Oct 10, 2025
Member, Cholsoon Jang, PhD - The common vegetables that can slow or even reverse dangerous liver disease
“We found that consuming a type of dietary fibre called inulin, abundant in vegetables, changes the bacteria in the gut to promote the consumption of harmful dietary fructose"
Member, Ariana Nelson, MD - Basic Science, School of Medicine Achievement Award
Announcement from the UC Irvine School of Medicine, Office of the Dean