UC San Diego School of Medicine Recognized Among 2024 Best Medical Schools
San Diego’s only medical school earns the highest tier rating among research-intensive medical schools in the nation.
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AACP Ranks UC San Diego Pharmacy School in Top Ten Nationally for Research Funding
UC San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences ranks seventh in the nation for research funding, securing over $34 million in grants to tackle pressing health issues like malaria, infant health, and more.
Irene Su Receives Award for a Novel Study on Fertility Preservation for Young Cancer Patients
The grant from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will fund research on the affordability and utilization of fertility preservation with health insurance for adolescent young adults with blood cancers.
Stem Cell-Derived Therapy Shows Promise Against Treatment-Resistant Liver Cancer
Discover research from UC San Diego showing how stem cell-derived therapy, targeting treatment-resistant liver cancer through genetically modified NK cells, offers promising new avenues for immunotherapy.
7 Ways Heat Impacts Health
Drawing from the expertise of the UC San Diego community, UC San Diego Today presents a list of seven ways that heat impacts health. Through collaboration and innovation, these insights can help pave the way for a healthier future for all.
Fighting COVID-19 With a Cancer Drug
Researchers at University of California San Diego show that a molecule which shuttles damaging inflammatory cells into cancer tumors also shuttles inflammatory cells into lung tissue infected with COVID-19 — and that the molecule can be suppressed with a repurposed cancer drug. The work represents a new approach to preventing irreversible organ damage in infectious diseases.
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