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02/05/2025
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $20.6 million grant over five years to establish one of five Human Virome Characterization Centers at the UCLA School of Dentistry.
2024
receives two Highly Cited Researcher Awards:
Neuroscience and Behavior & Molecular Biology and Genetics
04/11/2024
There’s nothing like seeing new perspectives through the study of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. — without getting too philosophical, he promises — is ready to explain why.
07/18/2023
A new study of UCLA Health's large genetic biobank is giving researchers new insights into the disease risks faced by the region's diverse communities and their access to health care.
06/07/2023
Precision health symposium addresses advances, challenges
Daylong conference focused on diagnosing and treating pediatric genetic conditions.
05/12/2023
Daylong conference focused on diagnosing and treating pediatric genetic conditions.
05/04/2023
UCLA's Center joins the National Organization for Rare Diseases to improve care, advance research, and increase awareness.
05/01/2023
UCLA Center for SMART Health convenes national experts to address key issues in healthcare data science.
04/30/2023
UCLA researchers are expanding their digital registry for depression research recruitment beyond campus into the greater Los Angeles area.
03/20/2023
Stanley Nelson, MD, has been named the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Endowed Chair in Translational Genomics.
02/01/2023
Researchers have uncovered racial and ethnic disparities in a widely used precision oncology data registry, which may impact study validity and generalizability.
01/11/2023
The UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative (ATLAS) has an initial target to recruit 150,000 participants from across the UCLA Health system with the goal of creating a genomic database to accelerate precision medicine efforts in California.
09/12/2022
Researchers are analyzing data from the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank to advance personalized and precision medicine for underrepresented populations.
09/09/2022
Large medical centers in urban areas, like Los Angeles, care for a diverse patient population and offer the potential to study the interplay between genetic ancestry and social determinants of health. Here, we explore the implications of genetic ancestry within the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) ATLAS Community Health Initiative—an ancestrally diverse biobank of genomic data linked with de-identified electronic health records (EHRs) of UCLA Health patients.
02/07/2022
A gift from Dr. Bronwyn Bateman will establish a new center at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute.
10/04/2021
Donors during the past year hailed from all 50 states and 72 nations; nearly 95% of gifts were less than $10,000.
06/24/2021
By better understanding the dynamics of a key immune signaling molecule, scientists may be able to 'hack' the immune system to strengthen it.
06/16/2021
UCLA Health will receive a $4.8 million grant from The National Institutes of Health to develop methods that will improve genetic risk estimates – polygenic risk scores – for specific diseases in people from diverse populations and mixed ancestries.
02/22/2021
A new study from UCLA and Stanford University researchers finds that three-dimensional human stem cell-derived 'mini brain' organoids can mature in a manner that is strikingly similar to human brain development.
02/11/2021
The Ginsburg Center builds on teamwork among scientists and physicians to advance research, enhance patient care for genetic conditions.
01/12/2021
Paul Boutros, PhD, Robert Reiter, MD, and Huihui Ye, MD, MS, of the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have received the 2020 Prostate Cancer Foundation Special Challenge Award to help improve the understanding of prostate cancer biology and identify new ways to help prevent, diagnose, prognose and treat lethal prostate cancer.
12/16/2020
Dr. Jeremie Calais, assistant professor of nuclear medicine and theranostics in the department of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is one of 26 researchers to be named a 2020 Young Investigator by the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
12/07/2020
UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers studying cancer evolution have created a framework to help determine which tool combinations are best for pinpointing the exact timing of DNA mutations in cancer genomes.
11/16/2020
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 16, 2020) – UCLA Health has entered into a collaborative research agreement with the (RGC) to provide whole exome sequencing for 150,000 UCLA Health patients.
10/26/2020
The scientists were brought together by their shared belief that genetics could be a key to finding better approaches to the pandemic.
07/03/2020
A single protein may determine the size of scars, scientists say. Larger scars heighten the risk of future death from heart failure.
06/22/2020
The former Bruins basketball player has committed $500,000 through his foundation — matched by a $500,000 UCLA Centennial Term Chair Match.
06/11/2020
Dr. Clara Lajonchere, deputy director of the Institute for Precision Health at UCLA Health, has been elected chair of the new California Precision Medicine Advisory Council.
06/10/2020
A unique approach developed at UCLA suggests a possible path toward treatments for other types of severe infection.
06/04/2020
Research brief: Findings from a UCLA study indicate some men may not require the intensive treatment they have traditionally received.
02/18/2020
12/20/2019
Research brief: There were no differences in outcomes for common surgical procedures between surgeons trained at foreign medical schools or the United States.
12/03/2019
Degree program will help meet the rising demand for specialists trained to guide patients facing complex genetic disorders.
08/08/2019
The findings highlight the importance of learning how genetic variants or mutations are passed from parents to children affected with autism.
08/01/2019
A Finnish study that included researchers from UCLA harnessed the DNA from nearly 20,000 people to identify genetic mutations that may increase the risk of diabetes, high cholesterol and other diseases and conditions.
06/20/2019
The event showcased the data analytics and computing capabilities available for researchers, analysts and stakeholders across campus to advance medical research and the delivery of care.
05/30/2019
UCLA Health is deploying Microsoft cloud computing services to enable UCLA Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine to synthesize vast amounts of clinical and research data to speed medical discoveries and improve patient care
02/25/2019
Developed by UCLA scientists, the technique uses robots to simultaneously screen hundreds of different treatments.
01/30/2019
Changes in RNA editing play an important role in the disorder, scientists find.
01/07/2019
12/03/2018
The study is the most comprehensive published effort to date to identify the source of neurodegeneration across species.
11/16/2018
The life scientists have provided the first cell “atlas” of the hippocampus — the part of the brain that helps regulate learning and memory — when it is affected by traumatic brain injury.
10/15/2018
The findings may help to offer better solutions for preventing and managing fatigue.
09/05/2018
08/07/2018
The precision-based medicine approach will allow people with newly diagnosed leukemia to have immediate access to new treatments that are in development.
11/08/2017
Through collaboration across campus and across disciplines, UCLA has improved the medical prognosis of millions of people in the past 10 years.
09/11/2017
The alliance of five UC medical centers will conduct clinical trials and study precision medicine, population health science, best practices in harnessing big data to improve health and political engagement for public benefit.
07/06/2017
Why do some people prefer stable, predictable lives while others prefer frequent changes? Findings of a study may hold answers to this question.
05/02/2017
Dr. Kelsey Martin, who recently was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, is the first woman dean of UCLA’s medical school, and she is among only a handful of women leading a medical school in the United States.
03/07/2017
Manipulating the stiffness or softness of T cells could help doctors harness the immune system to control disease.
12/22/2016
UCLA-led research found people with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and a certain genetic mutation have improved survival when given a drug in combination with standard therapies.
11/16/2016
The award, established in 1974, honors outstanding biomedical research related to health and disease that has contributed to the substance of medicine.
09/15/2016
The laboratory-grown tissue can be used to study diseases including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which has traditionally been difficult to study using conventional methods.
06/28/2016
The UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, a research partnership of UCLA, Cedars–Sinai Medical Center, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and the Los Angeles...
06/09/2016
People with cancer are often told by their doctors approximately how long they have to live, and how well they will respond to treatments, but what if there were a way to improve the...
05/11/2016
More than 600 guests are expected to attend “Dealing for Duchenne,” a star-studded Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament and silent auction to raise money for the Center for Duchenne Muscular...
07/20/2015
Researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Fielding School of Public Health are participating in a new nationwide, multi-center study of preschool and school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to identify non-invasive biological markers — or biomarkers — that could help physicians diagnose and track ASD as well as assess treatments in autism patients.
03/03/2015
UCLA life scientists have created an accurate new method to identify genetic markers for many diseases — a significant step toward a new era of personalized medicine, tailored to each person’s DNA and RNA.
05/28/2015
UCLA-led study finds that Hispanic women are twice as likely to have unnecessary treatment
04/06/2015
UCLA-led study shows that economic factors may influence the adoption of new technologies
12/16/2014
A new research institute at UCLA may eventually provide doctors with tools to more accurately tailor medicines for individual patients, which could both improve quality of care and minimize the side effects associated with today’s medicine.
07/01/2014
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is one of six institutions nationwide chosen by the National Institutes of Health to join the agency's efforts to tackle the most difficult-to-solve medical cases and develop ways to diagnose rare genetic disorders.
06/19/2014
UCLA researchers led by Dr. Brigitte Gomperts have discovered the inner workings of the process thought to be the first stage in the development of lung cancer. Their study explains how factors that regulate the growth of adult stem cells that repair tissue in the lungs can lead to the formation of precancerous lesions.