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UC San Diego Health Celebrates Inaugural Improvement Excellence Awards

The ceremony recognized the work of individuals and teams whose improvement projects made a positive impact for providers, staff and patients at UC San Diego Health.

The Human Condition Affects Us All

The Human Condition, an annual humanities magazine published by the School of Medicine students, encourages creative endeavors that encompass the experiences, emotions and challenges that make us all who we are.

Carolyn Clark, a rising third-year medical student is show with her cover art that is featured on The Human Condition, an annual humanities magazine published by students from the School of Medicine.

Gulf War Illness Caused by Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Not Inflammation

UC San Diego scientists contest longstanding hypothesis about mysterious illness affecting Gulf War veterans, providing first direct evidence that symptoms are driven by impaired mitochondria.

$1.5 Million Donation Supports Research on Effects of Psychedelic DMT on the Brain

UC San Diego Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative received the gift from philanthropist Eugene Jhong to further our understanding of the unique states of consciousness induced by DMT and how it could benefit human health.

Queer Identity Empowers UC San Diego Scientists to Challenge Norms, Chart New Discoveries

Whether they're engineers, climate scientists or neurobiologists, researchers at UC San Diego say their LGBTQ+ identity makes them better scientists.

UC San Diego professors Justin Meyer, Jia Shen, Ashley Juavinett, Fiammetta Straneo and Arun Kumar.

One-Two Punch: Novel Drug Pairing Could Beat Pancreatic Cancer

UC San Diego researchers find a combination of drugs outperformed other treatments in human and mouse models of pancreatic cancer; now urge clinical trial