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Alumnus wins Nobel Prize | United Press International

These discoveries launched the field of peripheral tolerance, spurring the development of medical treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Several treatments are now in clinical trials … [Fred] Ramsdell, 65, got his Ph.D from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is scientific advisor at Sonoma Biotherapeutics in San Francisco. (Also: Forbes, SFGate and KNBC-TV.)

Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds | SF Weekly

The inhalers people depend on to breathe are also warming the planet, producing annual emissions equivalent to more than half a million cars in the United States alone, researchers said Monday in a major new study. Using a national drug database, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard analyzed global warming pollution from three types of inhalers used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease between 2014 and 2024. (UCLA’s William Feldman was quoted. Also: CNN and HealthDay News.)

Funding cut for universities that helped create vital drugs | Washington Post

In the 1980s, Louis Ignarro, a pharmacology professor now at UCLA, became interested in nitric oxide, an air pollutant that could dilate blood vessels. At the time, he was on the fringes of his field. “I pursued that much to the dismay of my colleagues, who thought I was crazy,” Ignarro recalled.

What is conversion therapy? A history of the practice | New York Times

A 2019 study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law estimated that roughly 698,000 adults in the United States had received some kind of conversion therapy, around half of them as adolescents. (The Williams Institute was also cited by CNN and UCLA’s Eugene Volokh was quoted by Time.)

Disease ripping through California sea lions | San Francisco Chronicle

“It’s a whopper,” said Jamie Lloyd-Smith, a UCLA ecologist who studies the disease. “We don’t understand why. There are ingredients of this that we feel like we’ve got a handle on, but there are other things happening in the oceans that we need more research to understand.”

With teen’s death, D4vd’s rise to stardom is on hold | Los Angeles Times

“What rendered D4vd particularly captivating to younger audiences was his innate fluency in the cultural lexicon of Gen Z,” said Tiffany Naiman, director of music industry programs and a professor at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music.