Content Tagged with: Biomedical Sciences

Second annual RNA symposium advances research and fosters collaborations

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

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What role does alternative splicing play in neurodegenerative disease?

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

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Biomedical sciences postdoc awarded UC fellowship

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

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Biomedical scientist named fellow of American Gastroenterological Association

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

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Biomedical scientist promoted to lieutenant colonel

Scott Pegan is an international expert on Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

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Biomedical scientist to study novel mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease

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

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Using sheep brains to make waves

There was a time when Brain Awareness Day, which takes place each April, was just about the only outreach activity of the UC Riverside Neuroscience Graduate Students Association , or NGSA. But that changed when second-year graduate student David Nikom came to UCR in September 2020 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst after receiving his...

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Grant to biomedical scientist will support cerebral malaria research

B yron Ford , a professor of biomedical sciences in the UC Riverside School of Medicine , has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, to develop a new intervention against cerebral malaria . Human cerebral malaria, or HCM, is a severe form of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, associated with nearly 500,000 deaths in children...

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Gene found to play key role in promoting intestinal health

UC Riverside-led study finds PTPN2 contributes to how intestinal epithelial cells and macrophages critically influence each other in the gut

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School of Medicine postdoc receives NIH Pathway to Independence grant

Rebekah Charney, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Medicine , has received a five-year “Pathway to Independence” grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health, or NIH. The career development grant will support Charney’s research on the role of critical genes in human neural crest...

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Study shows receptor regulates atherosclerosis

PXR may be a potential therapeutic target to combat cardiovascular disease

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Diffusion tensor imaging for multiple sclerosis diagnosis

The technique is more efficient than MRI to examine changes in water flow in the brain in mice

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A quicker way to culture neural crest cells

Two studies advance research in embryonic cells that are critical for human health

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