Martin Monti received the International Guiseppe Sciacca award for using ultrasounds to stimulate brain activity in people with serious brain injuries.
The $3.5 million, five-year grant will go toward creating a center dedicated to developing an effective and affordable blood-based, cancer-screening test.
Researchers and Los Angeles’ chief sustainability officer will meet at the Hammer Museum to discuss ways to create healthier communities and increase sustainability.
The workshop is open to faculty, staff and students and will teach ways to manage and enhance internet technology literacy on smartphones, social media and browsers.
Bernard Kester, UCLA professor emeritus of design media arts who taught ceramics, weaving and design and initiated the university’s fiber art program, died Oct. 26. He was 90.
UCLA’s Baljit Khakh will receive $1.5 million over three years for research into astrocytes, which are thought to play an important role in Alzheimer’s disease.
Among his many accomplishments, the biostatistics professor earned worldwide recognition for predicting the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic beginning in the mid-1980s.
Dr. Bill Piskorowski, associate dean for community-based clinical education at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was selected as a Fellow by the American College of Dentists.
Elaine Hsiao studies the trillions of microbes the body contains that impact health and disease, and seeks to understand how they influence the brain and behavior.
Dr. Roger Lo, UCLA professor of dermatology, has been awarded $100,000 to conduct research that helps doctors and scientists better understand cancers that affect women.