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Feb 26, 2025 | UC Newsroom
Member, Selma Masri, PhD - NIH funding
“These cuts are a major hurdle to moving cancer research forward”
Feb 26, 2025 | UCI News
Possible links between PFAS exposure and childhood cancers
Results underscore value of continued monitoring for drinking water contamination
Jan 31, 2025 | UC Irvine News
Answers for Cancers
On Oct. 5, the eighth annual UC Irvine Anti-Cancer Challenge was held in Aldrich Park, the heart of the campus. The run-ride-walk set new records with 4,200 participants and a remarkable $1.5 million raised to combat cancer by supporting research at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and its pediatric affiliate, Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
Jan 27, 2025 | Medical Press
Cancer-fighting compound shows immense potential to eradicate HIV
Matthew D. Marsden, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, collaborates with authors from Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on this research, which was published in "Science Advances."
Jan 17, 2025
Nixon National Cancer Conference Fosters Discussion on Improving Communication, Utilizing Technology and Building Trust Within the Cancer Care Community
On January 15 and 16, 2025, the fourth annual Nixon National Cancer Conference convened at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. … Panel 1: The Complexity of Cancer Care Today. Panelists: … Richard A. Van Etten, MD, PhD – Director of the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. … Dr. Michael Stamos, Dean of UCI School of Medicine, spoke about the innovation in research and clinical trials happening at UCI School of Medicine.
Jan 10, 2025
Data science is accelerating UC medical research, diagnosis and treatment in California
The UC Health Data Warehouse is helping researchers to fast-track medical research and improve health outcomes. In 2024, six teams across UC’s health system followed data to notable findings that accelerated diagnosis and treatments while revealing how social determinants of health can impact access to care.
Jan 03, 2025
The Mystery of What’s Causing Young People’s Cancer Leads to the Gut
At the University of California, Irvine, cancer biologist Selma Masri has shown in mice that changing the body’s internal clock, called the circadian rhythm, changes the diversity and abundance of gut bacteria. … She also found a link between disrupting the circadian clock and colorectal cancer.
Oct 17, 2024
NIH Boosts Cancer Health Disparities Research through All of Us
The National Institutes of Health has provided additional funding to four grantee partners to leverage the power and diversity of the All of Us Research Program's dataset to develop more precise cancer prevention, detection, and treatment tools.
Oct 08, 2024
Measuring cholesterol to understand breast cancer risk can be tricky
Researchers used All of Us Research Program data to help clear up the confusion around cholesterol levels and breast cancer risk. They found that high levels of bad cholesterol and high total cholesterol levels were related to a higher risk of breast cancer.
Oct 07, 2024
Updated findings provide insights into radiation exposure’s impact on cancer risk
A major update was made to the International Nuclear Workers Study (INWORKS), an international epidemiological study of workers in the nuclear sector to assess their risks of cancer and non-cancerous diseases.