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As wildfires increase in frequency and intensity across regions like the western United States, smoke exposure is becoming more widespread and prolonged. Yet current knowledge gaps make it harder to develop targeted interventions or guidelines. Despite this growing exposure, scientists say the underlying health risks remain poorly understood. A...

Postdoctoral scholar and doctoral students to join global cohort of young scientists in Germany

Ting-An Lin will investigate molecular links between microplastics exposure and atherosclerosis

Third annual symposium brought together top scientists in the RNA field, strengthening UCR’s role as an RNA research hub

UC Riverside’s David Lo has launched a series of graphic narratives to make public health information more accessible

Addressing DEI meaningfully will help reduce disparities and improve well-being, authors argue

A big honor for chemistry and biomedical sciences faculty

Scott Pegan is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army

Natalie Zlebnik has received a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

The division originated the idea of establishing a medical school on campus

Nonsense-mediated RNA decay, or NMD, is an evolutionarily conserved molecular mechanism in which potentially defective messenger RNAs, or mRNAs (genetic material that instructs the body on how to make proteins), are degraded. Disruption of the NMD pathway can lead to neurological disorders, immune diseases, cancers, and other pathologies. Mutations...

Attendees included National Academy of Sciences members and prominent scientists from UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Stanford University, University of Toronto SickKids Research Institute, and City of Hope

UC Riverside scientists David Nikom and Sika Zheng explain in a timely review

Research paper selected by NIEHS as a Paper of the Month

Meli’sa Crawford will examine the effects of agricultural dust exposure on intestinal barrier function

Fellowship honors Declan McCole’s professional achievements in the gastrointestinal field

Scott Pegan is an international expert on Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

School of Medicine’s Nicholas DiPatrizio will lead the Center for Cannabinoid Research

Sika Zheng in the School of Medicine has received a grant of $250,000 from the National Institutes of Health

A ndrew Huang, a biomedical sciences graduate student at UC Riverside, has been awarded a one-year American Epilepsy Society Predoctoral Research Fellowship. The $30,000 award includes $1,000 for Huang to use as travel funds to attend the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society in December 2022. He will also receive a complimentary...