Matthew Landry

Oct 23, 2025

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.

Munjal Acharya

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.”
Michael Demetriou

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
Alexandre Chan

Oct 16, 2025 | NRG Oncology

Member, Alexandre Chan, PharmD, MPH - Receives NRG NCORP Pilot Project Funding for 2025-2027

Investigating riluzole’s impact on preventing neurocognitive decline and maintaining BDNF levels in chemotherapy patients.
Munjal Acharya

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."
Cholsoon Jang

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
Cholsoon Jang

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"

Ariana Nelson

Oct 10, 2025

Member, Ariana Nelson, MD - Basic Science, School of Medicine Achievement Award

Announcement from the UC Irvine School of Medicine, Office of the Dean
Misako Nagasaka

Oct 09, 2025

Misako Nagasaka, MD, PhD - Implications of the ALINA Trial: Is It Time to Skip Adjuvant Chemotherapy in ALK-Positive NSCLC?

Results from the ALINA trial challenge the need for chemo in ALK-positive lung cancer treatment