A New Strategy to Transform Liver Cancer Immunotherapy (external site)
UC San Diego researchers identify new strategy to improve efficacy of immunotherapy on resistant liver cancers.
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$6M NIH Grant Launches UC San Diego Consortium to Study Insulin-Producing Cells (external site)
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers will receive $6.4 million in National Institutes of Health grant funding to study how external signals and genetic variations influence the behavior of one cell type in particular: insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
$55M NIH Grant Advances Clinical and Translational Research at UC San Diego (external site)
The Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute at University of California San Diego has received a five-year, $54.7 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health.
4,000th Lifesaving Heart and Lung Surgery at UC San Diego Health (external site)
UC San Diego Health performed its 4,000th pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE), a lifesaving surgery to clear the lung’s arteries of scar-like tissue that robs patients of their ability to breathe.
3D Printed Implant Promotes Nerve Cell Growth to Treat Spinal Cord Injury (external site)
For the first time, researchers at University of California San Diego have used rapid 3D printing technologies to create a spinal cord, then successfully implanted that scaffolding, loaded with neural stem cells, into sites of severe spinal cord injury in rats.
3D 'Assembloid' Shows How SARS-CoV-2 Infects Brain Cells (external site)
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, into the human brain.
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