Funding from San Manuel Band of Mission Indians grants greater medical access to low-income residents

Nonsense-mediated RNA decay, or NMD, is an evolutionarily conserved molecular mechanism in which potentially defective messenger RNAs, or mRNAs (genetic material that instructs the body on how to make proteins), are degraded. Disruption of the NMD pathway can lead to neurological disorders, immune diseases, cancers, and other pathologies. Mutations in human NMD regulators are seen in neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and intellectual disability.

How geography acts as a structural determinant of health

Dr. Rajesh Gulati at UC Riverside answers some common questions about the virus and its spread

Kaveh Laksari, a UC Riverside assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was awarded $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop predictive models for stroke treatment strategies using data from patient brain scans.

On Saturday, the UC Riverside School of Medicine hosted Open House 2024, an annual event that helps attendees learn more about the school and the path to entering the health professions. More than 600 people attended the event, including prospective students, medical school applicants, high school students, and their families. See photos from the event.

In high school, Mario Sims, PhD, read a book that would have a profound impact on his life and career: <em>The Philadelphia Negro</em>, by W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois, a sociologist and civil rights activist in the early 1900s, linked social conditions, environment, segregation, and other factors to health disparities among Black people living in Philadelphia at the time.

UC Riverside-led study on innate immune system may lead to new treatments for patients with neuroHIV