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Babulal and Kanta also instilled a love of learning in their three sons, Rajesh, Rimal and Amerish. They carried on their parent’s mission to value higher education through their own families and personal successes.

Distinction recognizes his contributions to understanding of retinal diseases.

Expression of gratitude leads to surprise gifts for new UCI medical students

UCI medical students participate in a dramatic ceremony to learn where they’ll serve residencies.

Donor-endowed scholarship helps first-generation college student Julia Tran achieve her dream of becoming a doctor.

UCI moves to the national forefront of cancer research by taking an interdisciplinary systems biology approach to the devastating disease.

UCI School of Medicine researcher Rongsheng Jin, PhD, professor of Physiology and Biophysics, helped discover how the Clostridium difficile toxin causes deadly gastrointestinal infections.

Biophysicist Todd C. Holmes, PhD, professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the UCI School of Medicine, has been awarded a competitive five-year $2.1 million Outstanding Investigator Award/Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the first MIRA grant awarded to a UCI researcher. 

UCI’s School of Medicine wants its graduates to know what a healthy meal is, but also how to actually prepare one. For a second year, the medical school is offering a regular course in culinary medicine — basically, cooking classes with a hefty dose of nutrition education.

The Apple Distinguished School award recognizes UC Irvine School of Medicine for continued creativity and leadership in redefining medical education and clinical skills for the 21st century.

The Orange County Medical Association recognizes 150 UC Irvine Health School of Medicine faculty members as "Physicians of Excellence" for 2018.

Acclaimed vector biologist Anthony James to spearhead a multimillion-dollar effort to block the deadly disease in Africa.

UC Irvine epidemiologist Hoda Anton-Culver will help lead an ambitious and far-reaching statewide effort to recruit tens of thousands of patients for President Barack Obama’s million-person health study, part of his Precision Medicine Initiative.

School of Medicine alum and current UC Irvine parent, Dr. David Lieu, MD, MBA, Class of '79, gives back as a tribute to those who helped him succeed.

The next generation of physicians and surgeons took the stage Friday night, Aug. 5, at the UC Irvine Health School of Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony, and thus began their journey to become doctors.

Grace Nassar was three months old when her parents were told she had nystagmus, a condition marked by uncontrollable eye movements. Worse, an underlying condition would eventually make Grace functionally blind.

UC Irvine study of plant compound’s effectiveness against bladder malignancies has yielded promising results.

With a major neurology award and $10 million in funding, Dr. Tallie Z. Baram strives to understand early-life brain development.

Grad student Ryan Schutte’s epilepsy research has earned him a Public Impact Fellowship

UC Irvine School of Medicine is about to make history. The 2013-2014 first-year medical school class will include the largest number of women ever; they will outnumber men by approximately 15 per cent. This is the first time since the school’s founding in 1896 that the gap between male and female has been this large.