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April 16, 2025
Apr 16, 2025 | Tech Target
Why health AI needs an environmental impact framework
With health AI usage rising, healthcare stakeholders must recognize its adverse environmental effects and strategize ways to balance AI benefits with the consequences. To mitigate these concerns, healthcare providers must be mindful of their AI utilization, said Manijeh Berenji, M.D., Ph.D., associate clinical professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine & School of Public Health.
Apr 14, 2025 | Irvine Standard
20 Irvine game changers
Huang co-founded Aracari Biosciences in 2019 to commercialize vascular biotechnology innovations. In June 2024, Aracari launched the GO-Chip, a ready-to-use in vitro model for drug development that enhances research efficiency by eliminating complex tissue culturing.
Apr 14, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine
UC Irvine School of Medicine Reaches Semifinals of STAT Madness
UC Irvine School of Medicine’s research team has made it through to the Semifinals of STAT Madness, an annual competition by STAT that brings together the best biomedical research from the past year. Research from institutions across the country face off against each other in a bracket-style matchup in which votes determine the winner.
Apr 11, 2025 | UC Irvine News
UC Irvine research reveals how childhood adversity shapes the brain and behavior
Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world’s children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review of research in this domain, scholars from the University of California, Irvine illuminate the profound impacts of these adverse childhood experiences on brain development and introduce new paths for understanding and tackling them.
Apr 11, 2025
UCI Health celebrates first anniversary of UCI Health Community Network
This week, UCI Health marks the first anniversary of the UCI Health Community Network, formed by the historic acquisition of four community hospitals and their associated outpatient locations.
Apr 11, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine
Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD, receives AMWA’s 2025 Women in Science Award
Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD, Donald Bren Professor and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, is one of two recipients of this year's Women in Science Award from the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). She will receive the honor with Martha K. Terris, MD, FACS, from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, at the 110th Annual AMWA Meeting, which runs from March 28-30, 2025.
Apr 11, 2025 | UCI Health
UCI Health gastroenterologist Dr. Nimisha Parekh recognized as Woman of Impact
UCI Health gastroenterologist Dr. Nimisha Parekh, a national leader in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disorders, has been recognized as an Orange County Woman of Impact in the most recent issue of Orange Coast Magazine.
UC Irvine researchers found links that may provide therapeutic targets for neurological diseases
UC Irvine researcher Wei Li, PhD, Grace B. Bell Endowed Chair and professor of bioinformatics in the Division of Computational Biomedicine and the Department of Biological Chemistry, and his team have identified a groundbreaking link between tandem repeat (TR) size variations in DNA and gene regulation in the human brain.
Apr 11, 2025 | UC Irvine Health Affairs
UC Irvine’s Interprofessional Community Health Action Project
Advancing its commitment to comprehensive community health, the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences at UC Irvine has launched the Interprofessional Community Health Action Project (ICHAP), bringing together students from its four schools to address pressing health issues affecting vulnerable populations.