UC San Diego Health Recognized by Vizient as 2022 Top Performer
Business & EconomicsUC San Diego Health has been recognized as a top performer in the 2022 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Ranking by Vizient, Inc.
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Genetic Variation Explains Racial Disparity in Esophageal Cancer Cases
Health & BehaviorResearchers at UC San Diego have used artificial intelligence-guided tools to pinpoint both a specific type of immune cell as the driver of esophageal cancer and a specific genetic variation that acts as a protective factor in African Americans.
UC San Diego Announces 2022-2023 Holocaust Living History Workshop Series
HumanitiesThe University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) is returning this fall with a yearlong series of eight talks that underscore the theme “Rethinking Genocide: Fascism, Exploitation and the Holocaust.”
Tiny Swimming Robots Treat Deadly Pneumonia in Mice
Health & BehaviorUC San Diego engineers developed microrobots, that can swim around in the lungs, deliver medication and be used to clear up life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia. In mice, the microrobots safely eliminated pneumonia-causing bacteria in the lungs and resulted in 100% survival.
Bioengineering, Bioinformatics Graduate Students Selected as Siebel Scholars
Technology & EngineeringFive UC San Diego bioengineering and bioinformatics graduate students have been honored as 2023 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science.
UC San Diego, Salk and Others Seek to Map the Human Brain Over a Lifetime
Health & BehaviorWith a $126 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a multi-institution team of researchers at UC San Diego, Salk Institute and elsewhere has launched a new Center for Multiomic Human Brain Cell Atlas to describe human brain cells in unprecedented detail over a lifetime.
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