covid-19

Applications will be accepted starting today (April 6, 2020)and continuously until available funds are expended About this Emergency Seed Funding Opportunity  In light of the emergence and spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in California and beyond, the statewide funding programs of the University of California Office, of the President (UCOP) Research Grants Program Office …

Emergency COVID-19 Research Seed Funding with option of continuation funding Read More »

This is an open invitation to UCI faculty and researchers to attend an online panel discussion (tomorrow at 1:30pm) for the purpose of a high-level introduction to coronavirus biology and research tools for investigators considering entering the field. Meeting ID: 231 812 5148 Password: 195016 We can accommodate up to 1000 attendees in the live …

“SARS-COV-2 Toolkit for UCI Researchers” – Panel Discussion – March 31st at 1:30pm Read More »

Dear Colleagues, We are gratified and uplifted by the enormous interest on the part of the campus community to reallocate/repurpose needed equipment to the UCI Medical Center (UCIMC) as they respond to the COVID-19 crisis. In an effort to coordinate internal reallocation/repurposing of these items and assist UCIMC with their urgent need for personal protective …

EMERGENCY REQUEST FOR PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUPMENT (PPE) AT UCIMC Read More »

Dear Colleagues, In my March 17, 2020 message to UCI’s research community, I informed you of the need to ramp down and curtail UCI’s research activities.  Now, with Governor Newsom’s Executive Order N-33-20 (EO), all individuals living in the State of California are required to stay home or at their place of residence until further notice “to …

UCI Research Shutdown Read More »

Dear Colleagues: The COVID-19 crisis and the rapidly-changing circumstances associated with it are presenting unprecedented challenges to our research enterprise.  UCI’s research community has risen to these challenges, and I greatly appreciate all that you have done so far in response to this crisis.  Driven by the rapidly escalating situation in the State of California, …

Research ramp-down and curtailment Read More »

Dear UCI Colleagues: As the recent message from Chancellor Gillman noted, extensive planning and decision making is underway at UCI to deal with the arrival and spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the U.S. which causes the COVID-19 disease. I write to you with information and planning for the continuity of our research activities and …

SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and Research Continuity Read More »