A team of researchers at UCLA Health has received a $1 million research grant from the American Heart Association to study the cardiovascular effects of long COVID. 

The Office of Research & Creative Activities is honoring faculty for work that connects campus to local and global communities

Spanning work that could help Los Angeles meet skyrocketing demands for housing to research that uses big data to help build a more just society for communities of color to multiple projects related to climate change, UCLA faculty are doing work that has clear and immediate benefits to local and international communities.

"It's just about feeling like me and seeing that in the mirror," says Chloe Corocoran, after her facial feminization procedure. (Photo courtesy of Chloe Corcoran)

Chloe Corcoran waited years — all her life, really — to see herself in the mirror.

After undergoing facial gender-affirming surgery at UCLA Health, she finally can.

“I just wanted to look like me,” says the 40-year-old New York native.

In the midst of a national infant formula shortage, UCLA Health doctors are warning against homemade recipes or diluting bottles, and advised that pediatricians can help locate supply for babies with special health needs.

New research indicates the novel gene editing technique base editing could be used as a one-time therapy to restore the production of T cells in patients born with the rare genetic immune disorder CD3 delta severe combined immunodeficiency.

This condition, also known as CD3 delta SCID, is caused by a mutation in the CD3 delta gene, which produces a protein by the same name that is critical to the formation of T cells. Babies born with CD3 delta SCID are unable to produce these white blood cells that fight against disease-causing intruders in the body.

For the first time in over a decade, scientists have identified a first-line treatment that significantly improves survival for people with hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer. 

SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments:

Dr. Elizabeth Barnert, associate professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has joined the National Commission on Correctional Health Care’s board of representatives as the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine liaison.

Three UCLA professors — Dr. E. Dale Abel, Robert Bjork and Rosa Matzkin — have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. They are among the 120 new members and 30 international members announced by the academy May 3.