Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, won $305 million in funding during the recently ended school year, with more than half coming from medicine and biological sciences.
The university’s researching funding was up 16% from the prior school year.
About $20 million of the latest funding came from a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to Anthony James, a professor with the School of Medicine and the School of Biological Sciences, who’s examining how to prevent mosquitoes from spreading dengue virus.
UC Irvine has seen growth in its medical research funding in the past 10 years. Back in 1995, the medical school had about $40 million in research money. The school’s medical grants now are about $15 0 million.
