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UC San Diego Scientists Receive $9.5 Million NIH Grant to Combat Antibiotic Resistance

Health & Behavior

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have received a five-year, $9.5-million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish an interdisciplinary center to define the systems biology of antibiotic resistance. The program will be led by Bernhard Palsson, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Pediatrics, and Victor Nizet, MD, professor of pediatrics and pharmacy.

UC San Diego Scientists Receive $9.5 Million NIH Grant to Combat Antibiotic Resistance

Dysfunctional Endosomes are Early Sign of Neurodegeneration

Health & Behavior

Writing in the April 11 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say abnormalities in a protein that helps transport and sort materials inside cells are linked to axonal dysfunction and degeneration of neurons in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Down syndrome (DS).

Dysfunctional Endosomes are Early Sign of Neurodegeneration

UC San Diego Receives Its First New Directions Fellowship Grant from Mellon Foundation

Humanities

The University of California, San Diego has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship grant—an award intended to assist humanities scholars in acquiring systematic training outside their areas of special interest—for the first time. The $209,000 grant will support Department of History Professor Mark Hendrickson’s efforts to explore how the work of American mining engineers and geologists working abroad between 1880 and 1930 helped shape the development of 20th-century American capitalism, science and foreign policy.

UC San Diego Receives Its First New Directions Fellowship Grant from Mellon Foundation

Omega Factor: Novel Method Measures Mortality Risk When Multiple Diseases Threaten

Health & Behavior

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a novel method for assessing mortality risk in elderly patients with cancer who also suffer from other serious diseases or conditions. The prognostic model, they say, is more precise and provides a more useful tool for determining the best treatments when more than one disease is involved.

Omega Factor: Novel Method Measures Mortality Risk When Multiple Diseases Threaten

Neuronal Structures Associated with Learning and Memory Sprout In Response to Novel Molecules

Science & Environment

Chemists at the University of California San Diego have designed a set of molecules that promote microscopic, anatomical changes in neurons associated with the formation and retention of memories. These drug candidates also prevent deterioration of the same neuronal structures in the presence of amyloid-beta, a protein fragment that accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.

Neuronal Structures Associated with Learning and Memory Sprout In Response to Novel Molecules

Biologists Discover New Strategy to Treat Central Nervous System Injury

Health & Behavior

Neurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered how signals that orchestrate the construction of the nervous system also influence recovery after traumatic injury. They also found that manipulating these signals can enhance the return of function.