As obtained a $1 million Keck Foundation award to study the place chemical reactions occur in deep regions of the brain. Veronica Ahumada, director of the Technology and Social Connectedness Lab at UC Davis, was honored with the Early Career Award on the 2022 EDGE in Tech Initiative Athena Awards. In a Q&A, Hongwu Chen, the director of the Cancer Metabolism Initiative of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discussed how a particular receptor protein (RORγ) impacts most cancers progress and cholesterol synthesis. The UC Davis MIND Institute is launching a $4 million research program geared toward discovering transformative therapies for ADNP syndrome, a uncommon genetic situation. A group of interdisciplinary researchers will consider multiple gene therapies for possible use. In two research, UC Davis MIND Institute researchers have found that the character of a child’s autism traits can change considerably over time.

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