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Contextual Robotics Institute Director Gets Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems

Henrik Christensen, an internationally renowned expert in robotics, has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems at the University of California San Diego. The chair was made possible by a generous $1 million gift from Qualcomm Incorporated and a $500,000 match from the campus Chancellor’s Chair Challenge, a program created to support the recruitment and retention of quality tenured faculty.

Zika Virus Infects Developing Brain by First Infecting Cells Meant to Defend Against It

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, report that the Zika virus is transmitted from mother to fetus by infected cells that, ironically, will later develop into the brain’s first and primary form of defense against invasive pathogens.

UC San Diego Researchers Solve Mystery of Oxygenation Connections in the Brain

Scientists have known that areas of the brain with similar functions—even those in different brain hemispheres—connect to share signals when the body rests, but they haven’t known how this “resting-state connectivity” occurs. Now, scientists in the Neurophysics Laboratory at the University of California San Diego may have the answer.

UC San Diego Health Researchers Help Launch Second Pancreas Cancer “Dream Team”

Scientists and physicians at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, in partnership with colleagues at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and elsewhere, have been awarded a $7 million grant over four years by Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) to create a “dream team” to develop new ways to prevent pancreatic cancer — one of the nation’s deadliest malignancies.

Schwartz Gift Enhances Distinguished Melanesian and Anthropology Studies Collection

The UC San Diego Library recently received a generous gift to create the Schwartz Library Collection Endowment for Melanesian/Anthropology Studies, in honor of UC San Diego Professor Emeritus Theodore (Ted) Schwartz, a prominent figure in psychological anthropology.

Transplanted Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reverse Damage Caused by Neuromuscular Disorder

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that a single infusion of wildtype hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) into a mouse model of Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) measurably halted cellular damage caused by the degenerative disease.

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20th Anniversary of Love Your Wetlands Day
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New Collaborations on Renewable Energy Emerge from Bi-national Symposium

New Collaborations on Renewable Energy Emerge from Bi-national Symposium
New Collaborations on Renewable Energy Emerge from Bi-national Symposium

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