MARC Research Training Program

With age-related conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia on the rise, the University of California, Riverside, is joining a major effort to develop treatments that delay aging and improve life for older adults. The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $45 million, five-year grant to a...

UC Riverside has received seven grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need ( GAANN) Program. The program offers grants to academic departments and programs at higher education institutions to fund graduate fellowships. Students with strong academic records and who have demonstrated financial need and intent to pursue the...

A multi-institutional team of scientists in the United States, led by physicist Peng Wei at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a new superconductor material that could potentially be used in quantum computing and be a candidate “topological superconductor.” Topology is the mathematics of shape. A topological superconductor uses a delocalized state of an...

The National Science Foundation has announced a $22 million grant to establish a “BioFoundry” laboratory for the study of extreme microorganisms with collaborating facilities at UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and Cal Poly Pomona. The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea, and Bacteria, or ExFAB, will focus on developing techniques to learn from nature’s...

A UC Riverside-led study focusing on an oncoprotein called MYC has discovered a new MYC signaling mechanism that is deregulated in cancer cells. This mechanism, called MYC lysine-acetylation, activates specific genes that make mammary cells malignant and drives the tumor-promoting functions of MYC, including the ability of cancer cells to survive and proliferate even without...

A multiyear cancer-research project, stemming from a newly established partnership between the University of California, Riverside, and the City of Hope – Comprehensive Cancer Center (CoH-CCC), has received funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health to develop collaborations, resources, and training programs aimed at reducing disparities in cancer research...

Congratulations to 6 (six) of UCR MARC Trainees who won best poster awards during ABRCMS 2020! MARC Award Recipient(s):Kimberly Bennett, Marco Duenas, Halee Scott, Jose Soto, Spencer Pak, and Abel Vargas

A UC Riverside research team is among 20 groups receiving funding to investigate problems related to COVID-19. Elena Kozlova, a doctoral student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, is working with Margarita Curras-Collazo, an associate professor of neuroscience, on the project. They are partnering with Ruth Gutiérrez Aguilar, a professor of medicine at the National Autonomous...

A research team led by biochemists at the University of California, Riverside, has received a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, to study breast cancer — the most common cancer in women worldwide — and the racial disparities in the treatment of the disease. The more than $1.2 million grant will...