Brian K. Fennessy

Feb 5, 2024 | desertsun.com | Brian K. Fennessy

The reality of what has become a year-round fire season, coupled with the challenges of an ever-expanding Wildland Urban Interface, demands that all of us – the fire service and lawmakers along with the public we collectively serve – research and better understand the scope of the threat we face. The evidence is as ubiquitous as it is jarring.

Nov 28, 2023 | abc7.com | Phillip Palmer |Brian K. Fennessy

A critical piece of Southern California's effort to fight fire has been quietly making a name for itself for the last five years. The Quick Reaction Force (QRF) is a cross-agency partnership that has been available during peak fire seasons, but now thanks to $35 million from Southern California Edison, this first of its kind public-private partnership is available year round.

Mar 13, 2023 | nature.com | Dongjing Liu |Brian K. Fennessy |Esther Cheng |Joseph D. Buxbaum |Enrico Domenici |Dheeraj Malhotra | +21 more

AbstractSchizophrenia (SCZ) is a chronic mental illness and among the most debilitating conditions encountered in medical practice. A recent landmark SCZ study of the protein-coding regions of the genome identified a causal role for ten genes and a concentration of rare variant signals in evolutionarily constrained genes1.