UCI faculty records $212 million in...

UCI faculty records $212 million in grants

UC Irvine faculty received more than $212 million in contracts and

grants during the last academic year -- setting a new record and

increasing funding by $18 million over the previous year.

Some of the funding will go toward projects like cars that

communicate traffic conditions as they pass on the freeway, biochip

sensors that can be swallowed to monitor a person’s blood chemistry

and new therapies to combat Alzheimer’s disease.

Faculty members conducting research in medicine and biological

sciences were awarded nearly half of the total funding by

capitalizing on the increased availability of federal dollars.

Carl Cotman, director of UCI’s Institute for Brain Aging and

Dementia, and his colleagues, were awarded $1.3-million in grants

from the National Institute on Aging.

Biomedical devices the size of a thumbnail with the potential

power to serve as a medical diagnostic “lab-on-a-chip” in the body

are among the micro-technologies that G.P. Li, professor of

electrical and computer engineering, is studying with $4.1 million in

combined grants and corporate funding.