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2025
- Clinical Trials
- Giving Day Raises $76,900 for Head and Neck Cancer Research
- Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng Awarded the Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience
- New Faculty: Dr. Wei Dong
- Dr. Hamid Djalilian: Novel Work on Mitochondrial Transplantation, Central Long COVID
- Avant-Garde Health Research All-Stars
- NIH T35/UCI MIND RAMP Award
- Academic Research Fellowship Award
- CORE AAO-HNSF Resident Research Grant
- Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng Co-Authors Groundbreaking Gene Therapy Study in Nature Medicine
- Dr. Wei Dong Receives $1.2M VA Grant for Optical Coherence Tomography Research
- Dr. Brian Wong: UCI Beal Applied Innovation Spring 2025 Proof of Product (PoP) Awardee
- Investigating Mitochondrial Transplantation as a Therapeutic Approach to Hearing Loss
- Dr. Kaleigh Stabenau’s Olfaction Research Selected for Future Human Spaceflight Mission
2024
- Grants & Funding
- Strong Showing at Annual AAO Meeting (3 Podium Presentations)
- Dr. Edward Kuan Receives Triological Award in Career Development
- Clinical Trials
- Dr. Yarah Haidar & Dr. Edward Kuan: Recognized as 2024 Rising Stars
- Dr. Djalilian Named Muzzy Family Endowed Chair in Hearing and Balance at UC Irvine
- Patents Issued: Treatment Developments for Tinnitus, Tonsil Stones
2023
- Grants & Funding ($8+ Million Participated in as Investigators)
- 120+ Publications in 2023 (50 as First/Lead Author)
- Landmark Paper: Loud Tinnitus Caused by Atypical Migraine Activation
- Dr. Edward Kuan Receives UCI School of Medicine Early Career Faculty Clinical Research Award
- Clinical Trials
- Artificial Intelligence to Reinforce Otolaryngologists
- Head & Neck Cancer Research with the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping