The UCLA School of Dentistry partnered with a South Korean semiconductor company to bring a saliva-based diagnostic technology into clinics – with the goal of enabling the noninvasive, early detection of diseases such as cancer. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Dentistry will partner with Dongwoon Anatech to annually support EFIRM, an electrochemical platform that detects molecular targets such as cancer mutations in small samples of blood or saliva. (Courtesy of Ben Alkaly)
The UCLA School of Nursing will be renamed after Joe C. Wen, following a $30 million donation, the university announced Aug. 5. The donation was the largest-ever gift in the nursing school’s history, which will be UCLA’s first to be named after an Asian American. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Nursing is pictured. (Shiv Patel/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Aug. 12 at 9:23 p.m. Amid the federal government’s freeze of over $500 million of UCLA’s research funding, Mani Bhaumik hopes to support postdoctoral candidates who want to continue researching at UCLA with a new fellowship. Read more...
Photo: The Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Aug. 24 at 7:45 p.m. The Trump administration must restore over a third of the research grants it froze from UCLA, a federal judge ordered Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration must restore over a third of the grants it froze from UCLA. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A district court judge ordered the Trump administration to explain its suspension of National Science Foundation grants to UCLA at a hearing Aug. 12. California district court judge Rita F. Read more...
Photo: California District Court Judge Rita F. Lin’s order, which said the Trump administration must explain its suspension of National Science Foundation grants to UCLA at a hearing Aug. 12, is pictured. (Zimo Li/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The UC has agreed “to engage in dialogue with the federal administration” about its $584 million cut in research grants to UCLA, according to Wednesday statements from UC and UCLA administrators. Read more...
Photo: A lab at UCLA is pictured. The UC has agreed “to engage in dialogue with the federal administration” about its $584 million cut in research grants to UCLA, according to Wednesday statements from UC and UCLA administrators. (Libby Li/Daily Bruin)
Editors note: This piece was updated Aug. 5 at 10:53 p.m. to replace a passage that appears to have been improperly appropriated from another news organization. Read more...
Photo: Lab equipment is pictured. The federal government has suspended around 9% of UCLA’s National Institutes of Health grants and blocked the university from receiving new awards, UCLA administrators said at a virtual town hall Monday. (Daily Bruin file photo)
