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$5.6 Million Grant Renewal Expands Research in Kidney Failure

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The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases – part of the National Institutes of Health – has renewed a grant shared by the University of California, San Diego and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Schools of Medicine. The five-year, $5.64 million renewal will extend and expand research into acute kidney failure, or acute kidney injury, which kills 70 to 80 percent of patients in intensive care units who develop the disease.

$5.6 Million Grant Renewal Expands Research in Kidney Failure

UC San Diego Bruce Gorder 5K Walk For Melanoma Celebrates 20 Years on Oct. 19

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By the time Bruce Gorder was diagnosed with melanoma, it was too late. At just 37, his life was taken by the deadly disease, leaving his wife, young daughter and family devastated. Yet out of the tragedy a new initiative was borne—one that could potentially save lives.

UC San Diego Bruce Gorder 5K Walk For Melanoma Celebrates 20 Years on Oct. 19

UC San Diego Receives $6 Million Bequest from Cubic Founder and Wife

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The University of California, San Diego today announced that the UC San Diego Foundation has received a $6.05 million bequest from the late Cubic Corporation founder Walter J. Zable and his wife, Betty C. Zable. The bequest has been allocated by the Foundation to support endowed faculty chairs in UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management and the Jacobs School of Engineering, to create an endowed scholarship and fellowship program for all students, and provide funds for the UC San Diego Shiley Eye Center.

UC San Diego Receives $6 Million Bequest from Cubic Founder and Wife

UC San Diego Researchers Awarded $889,000 for Cystinosis Studies

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Two researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have been awarded grants totaling more than $889,000 from the Cystinosis Research Foundation (CRF) to investigate better treatments and a cure for cystinosis. A rare and deadly genetic disease, cystinosis affects about 500 children and young adults in the United States and 2,000 worldwide. The most recent grants bring the total funding from CRF to UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers to more than $5.5 million since 2003.

UC San Diego Researchers Awarded $889,000 for Cystinosis Studies

Annual Staff Picnic Celebrates Collective Impact of Staff

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An annual tradition to honor the commitment and contributions of UC San Diego staff members, this year’s All Staff Picnic was a hit with more than 3,000 people in attendance. Held Aug. 16 in Town Square, staff members were treated to a tasty lunch by Bar None BBQ and entertained by the Full Strength Funk Band.

Annual Staff Picnic Celebrates Collective Impact of Staff

Health Educator and First Latina Provost at UC San Diego, Faustina Solís, Dies at 90

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Faustina Solís—an educator and pioneer in public health and the second provost of the University of California, San Diego’s Thurgood Marshall College—died on August 4 in San Diego, Ca., at age 90.