Wednesday, July 1

Q&A: Dr. Gail Wyatt reflects on career, advocacy after receiving humanitarian award

Gail Wyatt, a distinguished professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, received the Association of Black Women Physicians’ Humanitarian Award in October. Read more...

Photo: Gail Wyatt, who received the Association of Black Women Physicians’ Humanitarian Award in October, is a distinguished professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, which is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)


State ballot proposal would approve $8.4 billion in bonds to fund medical research

This post was updated April 5 at 9:54 p.m. California nonprofits are working to put an initiative funding immunology research on the November ballot. The initiative would authorize $8.4 billion of state bonds to support the research – half of which would be required to support developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and heart disease – if 546,651 signatures are collected for it to appear on the ballot. Read more...

Photo: Students are pictured on Bruin Walk, a location where petitioners gather signatures. California nonprofits are working to put an initiative funding immunology research on the November ballot. (Daily Bruin file photo)



UCLA researchers develop cell therapy for aggressive breast cancer treatment

This post was updated March 31 at 11:21 p.m. UCLA researchers developed a human stem cell-derived cell therapy for an aggressive type of breast cancer. This study focused on modifying natural killer T – or NKT – cells, which are a specialized immune cell that quickly responds to cancer cells, according to the National Cancer Institute. Read more...

Photo: (Ji-Tao Yuen / Daily Bruin)


UC approves $298.2 million budget to convert LA building into UCLA Health complex

The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex. The project will convert an office building in El Segundo into UCLA Health South Bay, which will house a Sports Medicine Institute and create community fill and specialty pharmacies. Read more...

Photo: Michael Cohen, the chair of the UC Board of Regent’s finance and capital strategies committee, is pictured. The UC Board of Regents approved a $298.2 million budget to convert a Los Angeles building into a UCLA Health complex during the committee’s Wednesday meeting. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UCLA Health is leading the effort to treat and destigmatize addiction

This post was updated April 2 at 10:06 p.m. Dr. Julio Meza lost two family members to addiction-related illnesses when he was a child. Now, as a UCLA Health physician, he leads a program providing doctors with addiction-specific training. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Gonda building, which houses the Brain Research Institute that hosts the UCLA Integrative Center for Addictive Disorders, is pictured. (Michael Gallagher/Assistant Photo editor)


UCLA Faculty Association, science advocates host Stand Up for Science protest

Science advocates and UCLA Faculty Association members called on Californians to support a bill that would put scientific research funding on the 2026 ballot at a Saturday protest in Westwood. Read more...

Photo: Dave Farina, a science educator with 4.2 million YouTube subscribers and known for his channel “Professor Dave Explains,” gives a speech criticizing what he called a growing anti-science sentiment from the federal government. (Nicholas Mouchawar/Daily Bruin)



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