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June 10, 2025 11:46 a.m.
Panelists at LABEST are pictured. The UCLA Technology Development Group united the UCLA MedTech Conference and LA Bioscience Ecosystem Summit for the inaugural LABEST Week with the hope of fostering collaboration across fields such as medical technology, therapeutics and artificial intelligence, according to a press release. (Courtesy of LABEST)
Bioscience and medical technology leaders convened at UCLA from May 19 to May 22, combining two of Los Angeles’s premier innovation conferences.
The UCLA Technology Development Group united the UCLA MedTech Conference and LA Bioscience Ecosystem Summit for the inaugural LABEST Week with the hope of fostering collaboration across fields such as medical technology, therapeutics and artificial intelligence, according to a press release.
By Shaun Thomas and Tia Ketsan
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June 8, 2025 7:54 p.m.Rocket Project at UCLA spent hours across months building a fuel tank.
Project Ares, Rocket Project’s senior team, built a prototype tank with liquid oxidizer and fuel to test what pressures it could withstand, said Raj Sheth, a fourth-year chemistry student .
By Patrick Woodham
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June 5, 2025 6:24 p.m.Rachel Sung makes name for herself through Olympics, business endeavors
From the Olympic stage to tracking growth metrics, Rachel Sung is making a name for herself.
Sung, a third-year cognitive science student, has been balancing competitive table tennis and schoolwork since she was six years old.
By Shaun Thomas
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June 5, 2025 12:56 a.m.UCLA students exchange AI-driven data solutions in Healthcare Analytics Symposium
Students, researchers and health care leaders convened for the second annual Healthcare Analytics Symposium at the UCLA Anderson School of Management on May 16.
Hosted by the Morrison Family Center for Marketing and Data Analytics and the UCLA Anderson’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program, participants at the symposium shared perspectives on potential solutions to health care’s most complex data management problems.
By Maanasi Kademani
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June 3, 2025 10:25 p.m.Medical community claims unilateral UCLA leadership support in Israel-Hamas war
On Oct. 16, 2023 – nine days after an attack by Palestinian political party and militant group Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel, and more than 2,700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli retaliatory airstrikes – UCLA Health administrative leaders sent an email to the medical community.
By Anna Dai-Liu
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June 2, 2025 10:21 p.m.UCLA Epicenter provides students with innovative industry experience
Raffi Simonian wanted to give students experience in solving real-world business and technology problems.
That’s why he decided to lead the UCLA Epicenter, which partners with companies to create quarterly Innovation Challenges – hands-on projects where student teams try to solve real world issues in fields like data science, marketing, e-commerce and sales – said Simonian, the program’s director.
By Catherine Wang
Academics
May 29, 2025 3:38 p.m.UCLA researchers develop drug to counteract effects of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke
UCLA researchers have developed a drug that counteracts the impaired cognition caused by Alzheimer’s disease and reestablishes brain connections following strokes in mice.
The team began searching around six years ago for a molecule that would induce gamma oscillations – natural brain waves that are involved in memory, said Varghese John, the director of the Drug Discovery Laboratory at UCLA.
By Leilani Krantz
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May 22, 2025 11:24 a.m.When Science and Health Get ‘Trumped’
This post was updated May 23 at 10:43 p.m.
In this special package, the Science and Health team at the Daily Bruin explores how policies and appointments under the Trump administration could influence the research enterprise at UCLA – from climate studies to biomedical innovation to artificial intelligence.
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