Computing Unlocks Clue to Detailed Visualization of Important Enzyme
Written By Taylor Zhao Adapted from UCLA Newsroom article Efforts to combat the symptoms of aging and diseases such as cancer have been underway for almost a century. However,…
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UCLA Receives $8.4 Million Award to Improve Advance Care Planning
Adapted from UCLA Health Newsroom article A UCLA-led team, that includes IDRE Executive Committee member Douglas Bell, has received a five-year, $8.4 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute…
Exec Comm member elected to National Academy of Sciences
Adapted from a UCLA Samueli Newsroom article IDRE Executive Committee member Dr. Andrea Bertozzi, a distinguished professor of mathematics in the UCLA College and of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the…
Cancer Researcher Honored for Work on Immunology
Adapted from UCLA Health Newsroom article Dr. Antoni Ribas, director of the tumor immunology program at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and IDRE Hoffman2 sponsor, has been awarded the sixth…
Flu Vaccine Research Aims to Improve Effectiveness
Adapted from UCLA Health Newsroom article More than 700,000 Americans were hospitalized due to illnesses associated with the seasonal flu during the 2014–15 flu season, according to federal estimates. A…
UCLA Researcher Prepares New Wave of Neuroscientists for Big Data, Machine Learning
“My college roommate was a philosopher,” so goes the story of Dr. Mark Cohen. Cohen’s isn’t one that involves an early onset of an existential crisis nor is it the…
Baymax, Stretchable Phones, and Fundamentals of Soft Materials
In the animated Disney film Big Hero 6, the character Baymax is a loveable, squishy robot that resembles the Michelin Man and is programmed to be a sidekick and protector…
Leave Nothing to the Imagination: The Mathematics of Visual Effects
In show business, it’s all about who you know. But for UCLA Mathematics Professor and IDRE-related faculty Joseph Teran, it’s all about snow. His research into the mechanics of ice…
Bonus Materials: Real World Applications of Chemical Materials
Dr. Anastassia Alexandrova is living in a materials world; she is concerned with the study of new chemical materials through the use of computational design and multi-scale modeling. To Alexandrova,…
On the Mind: Grant Seeks to Understand the Brain
Getting inside a person’s head is no longer just the stuff of telekinetic comic book characters—the recently announced National Science Foundation’s Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) awards help to…