Research Highlights

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UCRI funding enables researchers to make cutting-edge discoveries that benefit California and the world. Learn more about recent advances through news items, research stories, and press releases.

In the News

2025

Advancing antiferromagnetic spintronics for next-gen memory and computing

2024

Nanopillars create tiny openings in the nucleus without damaging cells
New internship program gives UC Santa Cruz and HBCU students a hands-on look at the lives of enslaved peoples in 19th-century America
Research suggests wildfires can help fire management efforts

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Research Stories

NIH grant funds collaborative research on protein-RNA interactions in cancer

CRCC grantee received major funding from the National Cancer Institute for research on the role of protein-RNA interactions in cancer.

Five RGPO Grantees Earn 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards

Five UC faculty funded by the Research Grants Program Office (RGPO) received the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Featured Researcher: James Stinecipher

One of the first UC-national lab in-residence graduate fellows studies cutting-edge climate change science

Training new leaders to tackle global challenges

UC-national laboratory partnerships further non-proliferation and nuclear safety

Supporting novel notions

MRPI grantees use digital humanities to connect new generations to centuries of knowledge