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A Year of Resilience, Discovery and Impact

As 2025 unfolded, UC San Diego School of Medicine navigated a year filled with unexpected challenges. It wasn’t always easy, and at times it required more resilience than we anticipated, but we adapted, retained focus and moved forward together.

UC San Diego is Strengthening U.S. Semiconductor Innovation and Workforce Development

Andrew Kahng is part of several major national initiatives that together are transforming how future engineers learn to design and build computer chips. His work is helping UC San Diego become a driving force in the nation’s growing semiconductor innovation ecosystem.

How Climate Policies that Incentivize and Penalize Can Drive the Clean Energy Transition

A new study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how a mix of subsidies for clean energy and taxes on pollution can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

Spray-on Antibacterial Coating Offers New Protection for Plants Against Disease and Drought

Engineers have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist harmful bacterial infections and survive drought. Interestingly, spraying just part of a leaf results in bacterial immunity and improved drought tolerance for the entire plant.

Could Your Genes Influence the Gut Microbiome of Others?

A new study has found that the microbial communities making up the gastrointestinal tract of rats are shaped by the genes of their social partners. The findings could have implications for human health.

Researchers Show Visual Training Dramatically Improves Cognitive Function After Concussion

A study shows a new approach restores attention, memory and reading skills more effectively than standard therapies.

From Wish to Reality — The Gene Therapy Initiative at UC San Diego

A young patient’s wish sparks a decades long partnership that leads UC San Diego to pioneer life changing gene therapies, transforming cystinosis care and advancing treatments for many diseases.

Q&A: Meet the Award-Winning UC San Diego Alumnus Shaping Wireless Tech

"I use the work I did at UC San Diego and the exposure that I got at QI and other places on a day-to-day basis [in my job at Apple]," says Raghav Subbaraman (’24), who recently won the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society.

Congressional App Challenge Partners with SDSC to Strengthen the Nation’s Tech Workforce Pipeline

If you’ve ever wondered where the new leading tech innovators might emerge, they may have just paid us a visit. Several of San Diego County’s most promising high school coders recently visited SDSC to learn more about coding as part of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge.

Scientists Uncover Key Driver of Treatment-Resistant Cancer

UC San Diego scientists have identified the enzyme that shatters cancer genomes and helps them evolve to resist treatment, solving a longstanding mystery in the molecular biology of cancer.

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