Research & Labs

Comparing Physicians’ Performance to Peers Decreases Job Satisfaction and Increases Burnout

A commonly used behavioral intervention-informing primary care physicians about how their performance compares to that of their peers-has no statistic...

Does your PTSD still affect your daily life despite extensive therapy?

Are you male and between 25 and 60 years old? Our study involving responsive deep brain neurostimulation (RNS) of the amygdala may be an option.

Dr. Elizabeth Volkmann Recognized as "Doctor of the Year" by the National Scleroderma Foundation

Dr. Elizabeth Volkmann, from the division of rheumatology, was recently recognized as the Doctor of the Year by the National Scleroderma Foundation......

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center-led Study Looks at Quality-of-Life Outcomes and Toxicity Among Patients Treated with Novel Short Course Radiation Therapy for Recurrent Prostate Cancer after Prostatectomy

This study was designed to evaluate the use of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to treat patients with localized prostate cancer following r...

UCLA researchers identify a gene as a potential target in treatment-resistant brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme

Research led by doctors and scientists at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UCLA Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human ...

UCLA-led study finds genetic links between traits are often overstated

Mating patterns could actually help explain many supposedly biological relationships between traits, researchers say.

$2 million commitment from W. M. Keck Foundation creates COVID-19 research fund at UCLA

$5 million gift from Nancy and Howard Marks endows chair in women’s health research at UCLA

A DGSOM student's late husband benefited from blood donations - now she's calling on her peers to donate for others

Blood donations kept Ryan Sebastian alive long enough to meet his newborn son.

A readily available dietary supplement may reverse organ damage caused by HIV and antiretroviral therapy

A step toward understanding why COVID-19 boosts stroke risk

A UCLA-led study may help explain how COVID-19 increases the risk for stroke....

A structural biology approach to improving Duchenne muscular dystrophy outcomes

UCLA PhD student Justin Pi studies structural biology to improve Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) outcomes

A surgeon’s birthday may be a dicey day for older patients

A UCLA-led team has received a $925,000 CDC grant to track mpox outbreaks across the US

Dr. David Talan, a professor of emergency medicine and infectious diseases in the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine, leads the effort.

A Warming Planet Could Mess With Our Sleep – And Make Us More Vulnerable To Infectious Disease

It's a scene that will be familiar for many after yet another scorching summer: You're lying awake during a warm night, bedsheets kicked aside, an ove...