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NSF Study will probe the Quintessence of Surprise
Multi-institutional study investigates new digital understanding of how brains perceive novelty and importance.  Information theorists, Pierre Baldi of UC Irvine and Laurent Itti of USC are joining with electro physiologist, Douglas Muñoz of Queens University, Canada, on the study.

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Two IGB Faculties to be Honored with Innovation Award on UCI’s 40th Anniversary

UCI Professors, Richard Lathrop, Department of Computer Science, and G. Wesley Hatfield, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, will be recognized for their unique entrepreneurial contributions at a November 9th ceremony honoring UCI’s most significant innovators. The event is part of celebration activities surrounding UCI’s 40th anniversary.

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IGB Post-doctoral Cancer Researcher Secures Prestigious Appointments
Irvine, California, October, 2005, Chin-Rang Yang, a recent postdoctoral alumnus of the Biomedical Informatics Training (BIT) Program administered by the UCI Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB), has accepted an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology of the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.  He will also be awarded a joint appointment in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas and serve as a systems biology liaison between the medical school and the UT Dallas campus.

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IGB awarded $1.8 million NIH grant
Irvine, California, September 26, 2005, The National Cancer Institute of the NIH has awarded a trio of IGB researchers a grant to apply machine learning and experimental analyses to the activities of the tumor-suppressing protein p53.  Pierre Baldi, Rainer Brachmann and Richard Lathrop expect to contribute key information for new anti-cancer drugs.

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IGB Associate Director and DermTech International Receive UC Discovery Grant
Irvine, California, June 23, 2005,  DermTech International, an early-stage biotechnology company developing skin sampling technologies, announced receipt of a one-year UC Discovery Grant in the amount of $138,000 for research with G. Wesley Hatfield, UCI Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics.

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IGB Technology Licensed to CODA Genomics, Inc.
Irvine, California, April 27, 2005,  Technology developed at the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB) by Richard Lathrop and G. Wesley Hatfield has been licensed under an exclusive agreement between the University of California and CODA Genomics, a start-up company that will commercialize the DNA assembly and protein expression optimization work developed by the two IGB researchers.

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IGB Awarded $7 million to Advance Biomedical Research

UC Irvine’s Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, has been awarded four grants totaling nearly $7 million to further biomedical computing research and improve educational training.

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Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics awarded $4.3 million

Irvine, California, May 30, 2002, IGB has been awarded a $4.3 million multiyear training grant from the National Institutes of Health to consolidate current UCI bioinformatics training programs into a comprehensive, campus-wide initiative.

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