Los Angeles County received a C+ on a report card from UCLA yesterday for multiple environmental factors. The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability graded the entire county together on multiple factors relating to environmental health, such as water, air, ecosystems, waste, energy and quality of life. The county did worst in ecosystems and […]
Author Archives: Sylvia Lutze
UCLA professor combines expertise in public health, bioterrorism
Peter Katona spends his spare time giving talks on biological weapons and terrorism across the country. Otherwise, he can be found doing clinical rounds in the halls of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Katona, a clinical professor of medicine, works as an infectious disease practitioner and approaches public health projects in terrorism from the […]
UCLA researcher finds link between Huntington’s disease, altered protein
UCLA researchers may have identified a specific protein linked to the cause of Huntington’s disease, a genetic disorder that causes the breakdown of nerve cells and impairs a person’s movement and cognitive abilities. The exact mechanism that causes Huntington’s is still unknown, but researchers hope that targeting a protein called huntingtin and its functions could […]
UCLA breast cancer research leads to Ibrance drug FDA approval
Richard Finn transferred to UCLA as an undergraduate freshman from UC San Diego in the late 1970s to be closer to home after his mother died of breast cancer when he was a college freshman. Finn’s mother’s death made him want to go into cancer research. He went to find a research position at Dennis […]