Location: Irvine, CA
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Overview: Founded in 1965, **UC Irvine** is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and is ranked among the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News & World Report. The campus has produced five Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by Chancellor Howard Gillman, UC Irvine has more than 36,000 students and offers 224 degree programs. It’s located in one of the world’s safest and most economically vibrant communities and is Orange County’s second-largest employer, contributing $7 billion annually to the local economy and $8 billion statewide. To learn more about UC Irvine, visit www.uci.edu. Today's UC Irvine Stem Cell Research Center is a dynamic center encompassing a diverse array of interdisciplinary investigators that span the schools of Medicine, Biological Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Law. Our state-of-the-art, LEED Platinum certified research and clinical building houses 25 of our 65 center faculty members. Center faculty have obtained more than $180 million dollars in grant funds from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Our research programs also include National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored P30 and T32 training grants, state of the art shared equipment, research services programs and a variety of science events such as seminar series and annual symposium. The SCRC has undergone major expansion and reorganization over the past 5 years, including infusion of $52 million in new grant funding from CIRM in support of infrastructure, training, basic and clinical research programs. New programs have been established in our core laboratory/shared resources (including multiple new high-end instruments), clinical research and clinical trials, workforce development and training programs, community outreach and other areas. This growth is anticipated to continue over the next several years. This position wil