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Professor Lbachir BenMohamed, PhD, is testing a patch distribution method for a pan-coronavirus #vaccine instead of a shot in the arm. This innovative technology could help overcome some of the difficulties of mass vaccinations. #covid19

February is American Heart Month! #DYK that Hispanic and African American women are disproportionately affected by heart disease compared to white women? Our differences matter when it comes to preventing and treating diseases like heart disease. When you join All of Us Research, you may help study the factors that affect our heart health and find better ways to care for #ourhearts. You can sign up at: JoinAllofUs.org/California #OurHearts #AllofUsUCI #UCIHealth #JoinAllofUs #DiversityMatters #AmericanHeartMonth #Health #PrecisionMedicine #Data #Genetics #Science #DNA #HealthResearch

A new study led by Joyce Keyak, PhD, professor of radiological sciences, has found that treating spinal tumors with a localized, radioactive bone cement may be safer and have less side effects than conventional #radiation therapy. Read more:

Dr. Donald Forthal, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCI School of Medicine, discusses the science behind the #covid19 vaccines and their prospects.

UCI professors Dr. Dan Cooper, a pediatrician, and Dr. Chulie Ulloa, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases, joined the UCI Podcast to discuss school reopenings and the impact of distance learning on children. Catch the episode at the link below.

California has escaped the national surge in coronavirus cases. But new dangers lie ahead: Dr. Shruti Gohil, associate medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention, is quoted in the Los Angeles Times about the state of masking in Orange County.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an unprecedented five-year, $109 million grant to a multi-institution team, co-led by UCI, to expand research on the biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome. Read more: bit.ly/3jt13W8 UCI School of Biological Sciences UCI MIND Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Drs. Devon Lawson and Kai Kessenbrock both research breast cancer at UCI School of Medicine. Though they focus on different aspects of the disease, their goal is the same. Watch the story from CBS Los Angeles. #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

Reading about health is one way to increase health literacy. The NNLM All of Us Community Engagement Network Reading Club offers a selection of books + free downloadable materials on various health + wellness topics related to @AllofUsResearch. Learn more at http://bit.ly/NNLMAoU #AllofUsUCI #HealthLiteracyMonth

Coleen Cunningham, MD, has been tapped as the new chair for UCI Pediatrics and Senior Vice President & Pediatrician-in-Chief for CHOC Children’s, effective March 1, 2021. A renowned professor of pediatrics and pathology, Dr. Cunningham will drive research, educational and clinical excellence at UCI while helping further CHOC’s mission to nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Cunningham to UCI! Read more about Dr. Cunningham: https://bit.ly/2HfCdMm

UCI-led study reveals significant restoration of retinal and visual function following #CRISPR gene therapy, lays foundation for therapeutics to treat a wide range of inherited ocular diseases. Our results demonstrate the most successful rescue of blindness to date using genome editing, said senior author of the study Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD, the Irving H. Leopold chair and a distinguished professor in the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology at the UCI School of Medicine. Read more about these findings at bit.ly/3jcPq66

Please join the UCI School of Medicine M-POWER Wellness & Professionalism Committee for a webinar with guest speaker, Dr. Mona Masood, the founder and chief organizer of the Physician Support Line. She will help us better understand and address moral injury, as well as provide strategies and tools to protect and promote physician well-being, particularly during the COVID pandemic.

Monday at 12 p.m. PT, the M-POWER Wellness & Professionalism Committee will be hosting an informative webinar discussing doctor "burnout" which will provide strategies to help promote physician well-being, particularly during the COVID pandemic. Register to attend at https://bit.ly/37dRkAd or catch it on Facebook Live!

The 1619 Project at UCI continues today at 5 p.m. with Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow featuring Dr. Candice Taylor Lucas of UCI School of Medicine. Register to attend at bit.ly/1619Health. #BlackThrivingInitiative #UCI1619Project

A UCI-led 4D Nucleome project has received a $3 million grant from NIH to map aging-associated chromatin organizational changes in human brain cells. Read more about the team and this exciting project: https://bit.ly/2H2zxB7

The newly formed UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping is back tomorrow Oct. 13 at 11 a.m. with their next seminar "Developing new tools for imaging network dynamics in freely behaving animals" with Dr. Daniel Aharoni of UCLA. To register, visit https://cncm.som.uci.edu/seminars.