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SOM Hosts All Research Cores Symposium

UCR SOM Staff — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

New Training Course Empowers Community Partners to Take Active Roles in Research

UCR SOM Staff — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Brandon Brown, PhD, a professor in the Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health at the UC Riverside School of Medicine, has been conducting numerous community partnered research projects focused on HIV and the ethics of participant payment. Noting multiple barriers to community involvement as part of the research team, he collaborated with the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program to create The Community Research Partner Training Course. 

Hernandez Receives Predoctorate Fellowship from American Heart Association

Ross French — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800

SOM Researchers to Look at Chronic Illness and Parenting

Ross French — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0800

Even in the best of times, parenting can be a challenge. But for parents who live with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and more, those challenges can be magnified, causing complications that can make things even more difficult for parent and child alike.

High-altitude Researcher Applies Findings to COVID-19

Erika Klein — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0700

What can people living in the mountains of Peru teach us about people dealing with COVID-19 related oxygen deficiency? Actually, quite a bit. High-altitude exposure leads to hypoxia, or low levels of oxygen in the body—a condition that’s present in COVID-19 and many other medical conditions. Erica Heinrich, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biomedical sciences, studies the body’s adaptations to oxygen limitation to learn more about hypoxia-related diseases.