New York-based cosmetics brand Estee Lauder will be funding an annual fellowship at the University of California–Irvine (UCI) to study how the environment and human behavior–such as smoking and sleep–affect our genes, also known as epigenetics.
According to Dr. Michael J. Stamos, dean of the UCI School of Medicine, the fellowship will enable Ph.D. candidates to engage in “path breaking” research in the field.
