By Lisa Howard Precision medicine, an approach that uses information about an individual’s unique variations to treat or prevent disease, is changing the future of medicine. Rather than tackling symptoms, precision medicine — sometimes called personalized or individualized medicine — looks at the root cause of illnesses. Some of the information used to determine treatment […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded two grants to the University of California, Davis — one to advance kindergarten-through-12th-grade instruction on the Chinese experience in California history and the other to support an art history professor in her study of a medieval Armenian city. The NEH announced 238 grants totaling $30 million on […]
By Lisa Howard Vice Chancellor for Research Prasant Mohapatra announced the appointment of Susan Ustin as interim director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment effective August 1. Ustin, a distinguished professor emeritus of environmental and resource sciences and the director of the UC Davis Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS), has […]
Tara Niendam, associate professor in psychiatry and executive director of the UC Davis Early Psychosis Program, has received a $2.8 million Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Innovation contract from the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. The contract supports the EPI-CAL project that studies and coordinates efforts of early psychosis (EP) programs in California. […]
