Research Highlights
UCRI funding enables researchers to make cutting-edge discoveries that benefit California and the world. Learn more about recent advances through our research stories and archive of press releases, and by watching videos from our grantees on our YouTube playlist.
Research Stories
Visit the archive to learn about UCRI-funded projects.
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
MRPI grantees use digital humanities to connect new generations to centuries of knowledge
In the News
Visit the archive to read more news about UCRI-funded projects.
Heatwave exposure linked to increased risk of preterm birth in California (February 2020)
Battling brain cancer on all fronts (January 2020)
Wildfires in a warming world (January 2020)