Chia-Wei Yeh, a doctoral student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UC Riverside, has been awarded an American Epilepsy Society (AES) Predoctoral Research Fellowship, a competitive award that supports promising early-career investigators pursuing innovative epilepsy research.
As parasites become increasingly resistant to existing drugs, researchers at the University of California, Riverside are working to develop a new generation of treatments for two serious infectious diseases: malaria and babesiosis.
More than half of the oil consumed in the United States is heavy soybean oil, but studies link the ingredient to changes in gut bacteria, a weakened intestinal lining and issues such as ulcerative colitis.
"I go around my backyard and my front yard and maybe a little bit around my neighborhood to see if there are any obvious areas with puddles of water," said Anandasankar Ray, a professor in the Molecular Cell & Systems Bio Department at UC Riverside.
Manuela Martins-Green, an internationally recognized researcher at UC Riverside whose work focuses on wound healing, tissue engineering, and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of injury response, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wound Healing Society (WHS).
Mahboubeh Ahmadi, a UC Riverside postdoctoral researcher in molecular, cell, and systems biology, has been named a recipient of the Taking Flight Award from CURE Epilepsy.
Soybean oil, the most widely consumed cooking oil in the United States and a staple of processed foods, contributes to obesity, at least in mice, through a mechanism scientists are now beginning to understand.
