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Events, Funding Opportunities, Announcements, & News
October 29, 2025
Oct 28, 2025 | OC Business Journal
Member, Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD - Irvine Biotech Firm Pursues Cancer Cure
"It's the holy grail—one treatment to kill virtually all cancers"
Oct 28, 2025
Member, Min Zhang, MD, PhD - Anvil supports BigCARE 2025 Summer Workshop
"This year, Anvil made the implementation much smoother when we added some AI and machine learning tools for multi-omics data analysis."
Member, Matthew Landry, PhD, RDN - Love Green Tea? It Could Have Some Major Brain Benefits, According to New Research
A new study links this cozy beverage to slower brain aging and better focus.
Oct 28, 2025 | UC Irvine News
Member, Steve Goldstein, MD, PhD - UC Irvine Researchers Find New Alzheimer's Mechanism Linked to Brain Inflammation
Discovery reveals long-studied receptor is built differently than previously understood
Oct 27, 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."
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.
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.”
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
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