UC San Diego Health Nationally Recognized with ‘A’ Grades for Safety
UC San Diego Health has been awarded double ‘A’ grades for the spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
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Four from UC San Diego Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three faculty members and one vice chancellor are among the Academy’s 2020 class of 276 members, recognized for their outstanding accomplishments, expertise and insights toward the common good.
Marrying Molecular Farming and Advanced Manufacturing to Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine
UC San Diego nanoengineers received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to develop—using a plant virus—a stable, easy to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine patch that can be shipped around the world and painlessly self-administered by patients.
SDSC Researchers Develop Potential COVID-19 Protease Inhibitors
UC San Diego researchers recently created a pharmacophore model and conducted data mining of the conformational database of FDA-approved drugs that identifies 64 compounds as potential inhibitors of the COVID-19 protease.
Manoj Monga, MD, Named New Chair of the Department of Urology
Manoj Monga, MD, recognized as an international authority in endourology and stone disease, has been named chair of the Department of Urology at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and will see patients at UC San Diego Health.
UC San Diego to Advance Stem Cell Therapies in New Space Station Lab
UC San Diego and Space Tango received a NASA award to develop the first dedicated stem cell research laboratory within the International Space Station.
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