ISG Director Eric Vilain has been featured in several news reports about his latest publication, “Epigenetic Predictor of Age“. He and other UCLA scientists Sven Bocklandt, Wen Lin, Mary Sehl, Francisco Sánchez, Janet Sinsheimer and Steve Horvath have successfully predicted human ages based upon simple saliva samples. Their predictions have been shown to be accurate to within five years –…
Whole-genome sequencing has enabled doctors to provide a pair of 14-year-old twins, Alexis and Noah Beery, with a simple, highly effective treatment for a rare condition called DRD, or dopa-responsive dystonia. The tale of their cure appears in this week’s issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine. NPR covers the story
ISG Postdoctoral Scholar Sharlene Santana has been accepted to participate in the Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST) workshop for Postdoctoral Fellows, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). We all congratulate Dr. Santana on this wonderful news! Description FIRST IV is designed to reform undergraduate science education through professional development of postdocs who will design an inquiry-based, student-centered undergraduate…
Professor Stefan Timmermans has accepted the position of Chair of the UCLA Department of Sociology. He will officially assume the position July 1, 2011. He is currently Vice Chair of that department, and a ISG Faculty member. Professor Timmermans, a world expert in the social aspects of illness, death and dying, is an accomplished researcher and a committed teacher who joined UCLA’s…
We are very pleased to announce that UCLA Postdoctoral Scholars Drs. Jennifer Smith and Lindsay Smith have each been awarded funds by the UCLA Diversity Program for Innovative Courses in Undergraduate Education. Each of them will receive $10,000 toward the direct costs associated with their selected course, with any remaining balance awarded as a researched stipend. Dr. Jennifer Smith was…
ISG’s new majors in Human Biology and Society were recently featured in the Daily Bruin: Planned human biology and society major straddles the divide between North and South Campus