November 12, 2020
November 12, 2020 —
As Alexandra Newton took the stage late last year to give an invited lecture at the University of Dundee in Scotland, the event host introduced her as hailing from San Diego, “the other top cell signaling community in the world.”
October 29, 2020
October 29, 2020 —
They are working as peer mentors to veteran students. Some are studying medicine are practicing performing exams on patients. UC San Diego’s record-setting population of more than 40,000 students are working toward their degree this fall with a hybrid of in-person and remote instruction.
October 22, 2020
October 22, 2020 —
UC San Diego researchers use experimental artificial intelligence system called DrugCell to predict the best approach to treating cancer. Only 4 percent of all cancer therapeutic drugs under development earn final approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
September 3, 2020
September 3, 2020 —
David Gonzalez’s “a-ha” moment came when a physician-colleague, George Sakoulas, MD, shared with him one of the biggest problems faced in clinical practice: How long it takes to diagnose a patient.
August 27, 2020
August 27, 2020 —
Jennifer Le thought of her many distant colleagues at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam when she read a news article about one of their patients—a 42-year-old Scottish pilot who had recovered from COVID-19 after two-and-a-half months in a medically induced coma.
August 17, 2020
August 17, 2020 —
UC San Diego researchers discovered that tumor cells in younger and female patients accumulate cancer-causing mutations that are more poorly presented to the immune system, better enabling tumors to escape detection and clearance.
July 16, 2020
July 16, 2020 —
UC San Diego launched the Dissemination and Implementation Science Center earlier this year to provide researchers and practitioners with the training, technical assistance, mentoring and resources they need to conduct research that is meaningful in real-world settings.
July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 —
Residents in the School of Medicine this week launched RISE: Residents In Solidarity with Emerging Leaders. RISE is a 12-month "near-peer" mentorship program that pairs residents with rising third-year medical students who are underrepresented minorities in medicine.
May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020 —
Natasha Martin’s heart stopped when she first saw a photo from Wuhan, China, depicting a huge hospital ward of patients on ventilators—all unable to breathe on their own due to an unusual pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus.
April 9, 2020
April 9, 2020 —
With help from med-tech company BD, UC San Diego’s Microsetta Initiative pivots from crowdsourced microbiome studies to coronavirus data collection.
