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An NIH grant to UC Riverside and Indiana University will explore the question

Viji Santhakumar is the first recipient on campus of the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award

Project will focus on understanding mechanisms of hyperexcitability and seizures

UC Riverside research on nematodes secures $1.3M NSF funding

Exposure to environmental chemicals, including those in common plastic products, has been linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, or CVD, the leading cause of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, 17.9 million people died from CVDs in 2019. Changcheng Zhou, a professor of biomedical sciences in...

UC Riverside’s Early Childhood Services, or ECS, and Women’s Resource Center, or WRC, have received a $3.8 million grant through the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program, or CCAMPIS. The grant is offered by the U.S. Department of Education to support the participation of low-income student-parents in postsecondary...

Scientists at UC Riverside and UC Irvine have received funding of $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, to team up with Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in building a diverse educational pipeline in the field of microelectronics — a priority for industry and government...

UC Riverside and the Inland Empire have received $18 million from a statewide investment of $250 million that will establish K-16 Education Collaboratives to address equity gaps and improve education-to-career pipelines in each region of the state. The Inland Empire award was announced Aug. 25 by California Gov. Gavin Newsom...

The School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, has received a grant of $1.87 million to establish the Inland Empire Regional Hub for Healthcare Opportunity, or IE RHHO, which will create a pre-med pathway for local community college students. The four-year grant funding is provided by the California...

Training program spans broad range of research areas from basic stem cell biology to translational medicine

UC Riverside study is part of a larger landmark study tracking older adults

V iji Santhakumar, an associate professor of molecular, cell and systems biology at the University of California, Riverside, has received funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disaster and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health to further pursue research on moderate concussive brain injury, which results from car accidents...

UC Riverside psychologist Chandra Reynolds will lead the five-year research project

UC Riverside’s Khaleel Razak and Frances Sladek receive grants from the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative

Research could lead to the design of new and better treatments to fight disease

Andrew Subica and Ann Cheney will focus their research on marginalized U.S. populations

Total funding of three grants exceeds $1.2 million

UC Riverside mouse study will identify mechanisms the gene PTPN2 uses to affect gut cells

UC Riverside research is supported by a four-year grant worth more than $1.2 million

UC Riverside and City of Hope awarded Department of Defense grants for the collaborative project