On Oct. 16, 2023 – nine days after an attack by Palestinian political party and militant group Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel, and more than 2,700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli retaliatory airstrikes – UCLA Health administrative leaders sent an email to the medical community. Read more...
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Raffi Simonian wanted to give students experience in solving real-world business and technology problems. That’s why he decided to lead the UCLA Epicenter, which partners with companies to create quarterly Innovation Challenges – hands-on projects where student teams try to solve real world issues in fields like data science, marketing, e-commerce and sales – said Simonian, the program’s director. Read more...
Photo: Simonian presenting the format of the 2023 Fall Innovation Challenge to students interested in participating. Simonian leads the UCLA Epicenter, which partners with companies to create quarterly Innovation Challenges. (Courtesy of UCLA Epicenter)
UCLA researchers have developed a drug that counteracts the impaired cognition caused by Alzheimer’s disease and reestablishes brain connections following strokes in mice. The team began searching around six years ago for a molecule that would induce gamma oscillations – natural brain waves that are involved in memory, said Varghese John, the director of the Drug Discovery Laboratory at UCLA. Read more...
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The UC Board of Regents Health Services Committee announced at a meeting May 13 that the proposed UC Health budget will decrease for the upcoming fiscal year. Read more...
Photo: Regent Janet Reilly is pictured. The UC Board of Regents Health Services Committee announced at a meeting May 13 that the proposed UC Health budget will decrease for the upcoming fiscal year. (Anna Dai-Liu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated May 23 at 10:43 p.m. In this special package, the Science and Health team at the Daily Bruin explores how policies and appointments under the Trump administration could influence the research enterprise at UCLA – from climate studies to biomedical innovation to artificial intelligence. Read more...
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UCLA researchers and policy experts said United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lacks qualifications for his role and could derail American research and public health efforts. Read more...
Photo: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office Feb. 13 as the 26th HHS secretary after then-President-elect Donald Trump named him for the role in November. (Courtesy of the White House/Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License)
Artificial intelligence experts at UCLA said AI deregulation creates cultural challenges and has significant business implications following a Trump administration executive order. One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders – executive order 14179 – passed in January and revoked previous AI regulation policies that he described as “barriers to American AI innovation.” Titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” the order places a high emphasis on global leadership and competition and deregulating AI. Read more...
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