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UC Davis is launching the AggieBrain Initiative—an interdisciplinary effort that brings together expertise from UC Davis Health’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the UC Davis College of Engineering. Our goal is to modernize and accelerate how neurodegenerative diseases that cause dementia are identified, measured, and studied. This includes Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal degeneration, and mixed-etiology dementia.

We develop programmable therapeutic platforms that combine biomaterials, vesicle engineering, cell-free systems, synthetic biology, and design-build-test-learn workflows. The platforms are translated to address urgent needs in various biomedical fields, including biomanufacturing, immunotherapy, chronic disease therapy, and regeneration.

The Arcoíris Research Collective (ARC) centers the lives and relationships of sexual and gender diverse adolescents and emerging adults at the intersections of sex, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, and class. Mainly, we integrate developmental, minority stress, biological, and intersectionality theoretical frameworks to examine how interlocking systems of power and oppression conjointly initiate and perpetuate stressful life conditions that compromise biological stress processes and the psychological health of sexual and gender diverse adolescents and emerging adults.