Deadline Extended to January 26 – Call for Seed Grant Proposals on Infectious Disease Dynamics
Deadline Extended to January 26 for Seed Grant Proposals Interdisciplinary Pilot Study Funding on Infectious Disease Dynamics The UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative (IDSI) aims to establish UCI as a global leader in research and […]
New evidence that U.K. coronavirus variant spreads more easily has scientists really worried.
IDSI Co-Director Prof. Vladimir Minin gives his opinion in regards to the study and current situation. The coronavirus variant in the United Kingdom has confirmed scientists’ early suspicions of a super spreader capable of turbocharging […]
IDSI Associate Director Dr. Shruti Gohil on the Irvine COVID-19 and Business Reopening Task Force.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Farrah N. Khan announces the COVID-19 and Business Reopening Task Forces to guide the City of Irvine in 2021 and beyond. IDSI Associate Director Dr. Shruti Gohil will […]
UCI: IDSI Nursing Faculty Adey Nyamathi among the world’s top 2% of researchers.
UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor Adey Nyamathi and three other nursing faculty are among the top 2% of scientists in the world. Dean and Professor Adey Nyamathi […]
UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative Newsletter – December 2020
Dear colleagues, As 2020 comes to a close, we would like to thank you for your support of the UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative (IDSI) throughout the year. Please see below highlights from the past […]
Unmasking COVID-19 transmission at UC Irvine
Unmasking COVID-19 transmission at UC Irvine About our study Our study, Unmasking COVID-19 transmission at UC Irvine: Immuno-prevalence survey of UCI students, is a research study to find out how many students at UC […]
Request for Infectious Disease Dynamics Proposals – Due January 11
Request for Proposals Interdisciplinary Pilot Study Funding on Infectious Disease Dynamics The UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative (IDSI) aims to establish UCI as a global leader in research and education in infectious disease dynamics. The […]
Estimated Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Among Adults in Orange County, California
Clinic-based estimates of SARS-CoV-2 may considerably underestimate the total number of infections. Access to testing in the US has been heterogeneous and symptoms vary widely in infected persons. Public health surveillance efforts and metrics […]
Population distribution can greatly impact COVID-19 spread, UCI-led study finds
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 1, 2020 — Uneven population distribution can significantly impact the severity and timing of COVID-19 infections within a city or county, leading individual communities to have vastly different experiences with the pandemic, according […]
KUCI- Keeping Up with Coronavirus Statistics Podcast Interview with IDSI Co-Director Vladimir Minin
IDSI Co-Director Vladimir Minin has been featured in a KUCI (UCI’s radio station) interview. Listen here: https://ckaehler.wixsite.com/officehourskuci/podcast/episode/31a6c333/keeping-up-with-coronavirus-statistics From the KUCI Website: Cybelle Kaehler | 9/23/2020 When the pandemic hit, UC Irvine professor of statistics Vladimir […]
List of Critical Ongoing Research to Understand COVID-19 Dynamics in Hospitals by Dr. Shruti Gohil
IDSI Co-Director, Dr. Shruti Gohil MD, MPH, of UC Irvine’s School of Medicine Infectious Disease Department, shares her research with COVID-19. Project 1: Use of signature COVID-19 features to identify earliest cases in the US […]
IDSI Co-Director Vladimir Minin Publishes New Phylodynamics Study
Infectious Disease Science Initiative (IDSI) Collaborator, Dr. Vladimir Minin, and researchers from University of Washington and UC Santa Cruz, published a new study in Biometrics. The study examines an area of population genetics, called phylodynamics. […]
New Paper on Spatial Heterogeneity of COVID-19 by Dr. Carter Butts
UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative (IDSI) Faculty Advisory Member Carter Butts (Departments of Sociology, Statistics, Computer Science, and EECS ) and his team have published a new paper examining “the effects of an uneven population […]
IDSI Co-Director Vladimir Minin and ICS Statistics Researchers Release New Online ‘OC COVID Situation Report’
A new website tracking Orange County’ current COVID-19 situation has been created. A months-long collaboration among UCI, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) has […]
COVID-19 serology at population scale: SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody responses in saliva.
IDSI Faculty Advisory Board Member Douglas Granger has published new research about COVID-19 antibody responses in saliva. This was a team effort with colleagues at Johns Hopkins Read more at PubMed.
UCI develops low-cost, accurate COVID-19 antibody detection platform
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 19, 2020 — A robust, low-cost imaging platform utilizing lab-on-a-chip technology created by University of California, Irvine scientists may be available for rapid coronavirus diagnostic and antibody testing throughout the nation by the end […]
UCI to Launch COVID-19 Student Surveillance Study
A new study is being conducted to better understand the transmission of COVID- 19 – this time, through University of California, Irvine (UCI) students. The project’s principal investigators include UCI’s Infectious Disease Science Initiative’s co-directors […]
UC Irvine workshop trains residents in COVID-19 hot spots to do contact tracing
LA TIMES – An important line of defense against the coronavirus lies in contact tracing, tracking the steps of an infected individual and reaching out to others who may have been exposed with advice on […]
UCI researchers launch first-of-its-kind coronavirus statistics portal
UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative Co-director Vladimir Minin and additional scientists at the University of California, Irvine have unveiled a public website that provides up-to-date statistics on coronavirus infections in Orange County, with comparisons to […]
