Research & Labs

Tiny implantable device designed by UCLA scientists helps kill cancer

A therapeutic sponge the size of a pencil eraser boosted the body’s tumor-fighting response in mice and kept the cancer from returning.

To fight diseases of aging, scientist makes aging itself the target

Dr. Guo and her colleagues discovered how to reverse up to 95% of the damage to mitochondrial DNA in animals.

Two Early Cancer Detection Programs Boosted by Renewed NCI Grants

Types of Traumatic Brain Injury

UCLA traumatic brain injury specialist Dr. Paul Vespa explains the different types of traumatic brain injury and tbi symptoms.

UCAAN Symposium Held at UCLA on February 6

Academic Briefing on the ACEs Aware Initiative

UCLA AIDS researchers receive $3 million in grants toward ending HIV in vulnerable populations

The UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) and the UCLA-Charles R....

UCLA awarded $11.5 million to improve organ, hand and face transplantation

The Dumont–UCLA Transplant Center has received two grants totaling $11.5 million from the federal government for research aimed at making donated or...

UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center receives $5 million CIRM grant for research training program

The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA has been awarded $5 million by the California Institute for Re...

UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center awarded $11.5 million NIH grant

A multidisciplinary UCLA team will study the ability of the nervous system to prevent fatal arrhythmias.

UCLA clinical trial tests anti-inflammatory drug to improve outcomes in patients with COVID-19 and heart damage

UCLA fellowship prepares new generation of flight surgeons

Participants will undergo training with UCLA, SpaceX, Caltech and NASA

UCLA Health builds on development of breakthrough targeted therapies to treat breast cancer

Targeted therapies are revolutionizing the fight against breast cancer, leading to significant improvements in patient survival and quality of life.

UCLA Health researchers analyze LA’s ‘stunningly diverse’ genetic ancestry to bring ethnic equity to precision medicine

Analyzing genetic ancestry data from a large genomic repository – the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank – researchers have found a highly divers...

UCLA Health’s TechQuity Accelerator Announces Inaugural Cohort Advancing Equitable Innovations

The inaugural cohort of innovators has been selected to participate in UCLA Health’s new TechQuity Accelerator....

UCLA JCCC Trainee Travel Awards

The program provides travel and conference funding to students(undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs) working on cancer research projects