Major Gift Focuses Efforts on a Rare, but Devastating, Genetic Eye Disease
Nixon Foundation funds effort to study and treat macular dystrophy at Shiley Eye Institute. Currently, there are no effective treatments to slow or prevent genetic condition.
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David A. Brenner, MD, to Step Down as Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
Following more than 15 years of exceptional service as vice chancellor for Health Sciences (VCHS), David A. Brenner, MD, will step down on June 30, 2022 to focus on teaching and research as a member of the School of Medicine’s faculty.
First Case of Community Acquired Omicron Variant in San Diego
Few places in the country are better equipped to detect new virus variants than San Diego, where researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Scripps Research, working with county public health officials, health systems and others, collaborate to create a sort of viral early warning system.
Meet the ‘Heart Brothers’
This year’s 81 successful heart transplants to date continues a multi-year trend in which UC San Diego Health has performed four to nine times as many procedures annually as other local providers. So, it doesn’t seem surprising that two of this year’s recipients should have found each other and organically forged their own personal support group.
UC San Diego Data Science Undergrads Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
Since the start of the pandemic, a group of UC San Diego researchers have been meeting weekly with epidemiologists at the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) to discuss COVID-19 dynamics, analyze populations at higher risk and explore the county’s pandemic response and new ways to mitigate the infection.
Infantile Cataracts are a Blind Spot
Pediatric ophthalmologist with Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego Health explains why infantile cataracts are more common — and problematic — than most people realize.
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