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Wired for Care

Alumni perspectives on the health care revolution.

UC San Diego Receives $12.3 Million Grant to Study the Intersection of HIV and Methamphetamine Use

UC San Diego has launched Brain-FRAMe, an innovative program integrating neuroscience and immunology to improve brain health and clinical care for people living with HIV and methamphetamine use disorder.

Inside San Diego’s Innovation Engine

What powers San Diego’s innovation engine? When leading minds from academia, industry and government gathered at UC San Diego, the answer was clear: collaboration.

How Brain Ripples Keep Memory Online

Working memory is essential to our daily functioning, but there are still unanswered questions about how it works. UC San Diego researchers are helping answer them.

As New World Screwworm Returns to the U.S., UC San Diego and San Diego County Team Up to Track Risks

A new dashboard tracks New World screwworm risk levels county by county.

Scientists Uncover Cellular Mechanism Driving Both Rare Childhood Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

UC San Diego researchers have found a "genetic switch" triggering neurodegeneration in both a rare childhood dementia and Alzheimer's disease, pointing to new drug targets in the waste-processing system within the brain’s immune cells.