Dr. Uday Devaskar rode the near-52 miles home from UCLA to Oxnard in a private ambulance with prematurely born Ione Villanueva in 2001. When they arrived, family and friends were waiting for Ione, who was able to spend time in her crib with her twin sister, Macy, before she died from liver failure in her […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
UCLA receives $11M NIH grant to create center for big data computing
UCLA has received an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to make a center that would study biomedical data analysis, or big data computing, UCLA announced Thursday. The award is part of NIH’s $656 million Big Data to Knowledge initiative. As part of the project, the new UCLA Center of Excellence for […]
UCLA professor’s research on suicide aims to save lives
About five years ago, one of Mark Kaplan’s colleagues – a well-liked professor and scholar – committed suicide. Though Kaplan had been researching suicide for 17 years, his colleague’s death was the first time he was personally affected by the event. “It was an incident that was very touching to me,” said Kaplan, a professor […]
UCLA researchers receive NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Four UCLA researchers recently received the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, officials announced in a press release Wednesday. The annual award recognizes innovative research in science and supports creative new investigators, with each winner receiving $2.3 million for his or her research projects. The four award winners, Dr. Reza Ardehali, Dr. Elissa […]
UCLA receives $3M grant to help lessen effects of secondhand smoke
UCLA researchers will receive a $3 million grant to counteract the effects of secondhand smoke among low-income black and Latino families in Los Angeles, officials announced last week. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will give the grant to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research over the next three years. The center […]
UCLA to launch Healthy Aging Initiative
UCLA, USC and Los Angeles County officials are collaborating to launch several pilot projects this fall with the goal of improving health resources for the aging community. The Healthy Aging Initiative aims to advance and expand community programs that encourage middle-aged and older adults to stay healthy, with timely access to health care, social support […]
Q&A: Test prep expert explains new MCAT
Starting in April 2015, the Association of American Medical Colleges will administer a new Medical College Admission Test with changes that have stirred up questions and concerns among premedical students. Eric Chiu, the executive director of premed programs at Kaplan Test Prep, recently spoke with Daily Bruin assistant editor Kelly Gu about some common questions […]