The topline results for the Anti-Amyloid treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease (A4) study were released today (https://a4study.org). Unfortunately, the drug being investigated, solanezumab, failed to demonstrate a benefit in slowing…
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Dr. Joshua Grill and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded a 3.5 million dollar grant by the National Institute on Aging to advance the field’s understanding of…
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UCI MIND faculty member and psychiatrist, David Sultzer, MD, has been awarded a $12 million dollar grant by the NIA to test a novel prevention treatment. He, along with two…
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On February 17, 2023, a bipartisan group of Senators sent the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Javier Baccera, and the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
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UCI MIND faculty member and Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Mathew Blurton-Jones Jones, PhD, has been awarded Early Career Innovator/Emerging Innovation of the Year by UCI Beall Applied Innovation. Read the…
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a form of dementia that typically affects individuals in their 50s and 60s. It is therefore, commonly referred to as young onset dementia. Clinically, FTD can…
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Irvine, Calif., Jan. 31, 2023 — Sustained support from philanthropists Joan and Don Beall to the the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders will allow for the continuation of…
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The UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute now offers sight-saving ocular stem cell transplants for severe eye surface damage, becoming only the second medical institution in the nation to treat…
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UCI School of Medicine highlighted innovative research performed in the lab of Xiangmin Xu, PhD, UCI MIND faculty member and professor and Chancellor’s Fellow of anatomy and neurobiology in the…
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In a somewhat surprising move, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declined to grant accelerated approval to Eli Lilly’s donanemab Read the full press release from Eli Lilly…
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Avalon and Orange, Calif. — UCI Health and Catalina Island Medical Center are pleased to announce a clinical affiliation between the University of California, Irvine’s leading academic health system and Catalina…
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The recent FDA approval of lecanemab has generated a lot of buzz in recent days and UCI MIND director, Joshua Grill, PhD has been asked to comment in various highly…
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UCI MIND faculty member and professor, Mathew Blurton-Jones, PhD, is featured in AlzForum for his lab’s recent collaborative work on creating a new strain of resistant microglia. Lead author and…
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UCI Health is home to over 190 doctors who have been named 2023 Physicians of Excellence by the Orange County Medical Association (OCMA), more than any other hospital in the…
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UCI MIND Faculty Member Elizabeth Head, PhD was featured in the Akron Beacon Journal: I recently interviewed Dr. Elizabeth Head, a neuropathology core co-investigator at the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center…
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Irvine, Calif. — UC Irvine researchers have developed and successfully tested a new data exchange system to provide first responders with real-time, critical health information about senior care center residents,…
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Orange, Calif. – UCI Health is proud to announce it has been named a 2022 Climate Champion by Health Care Without Harm. The Climate Champion Awards recognize healthcare organizations for…
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The work of our faculty, researchers, and collaborators was highlighted in a recent Alzforum article on anti-tau vaccines. AC Immune updates Phase 1b/2 comparison of two anti-#tau vaccines. A liposomal…
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IN THE NEWS: A Texas college student returned to Orange County to thank the UCI Health burn and trauma teams for saving his life after a fiery car crash last December…
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