Southern California Earthquake Center Consortium Welcomes New Core Institution
San Diego Supercomputer Center becomes a voting member represented by Computational Scientist Yifeng Cui
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Alternative Approach Uses Sound Waves to Treat Prostate Cancer
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in San Diego County to employ high-intensity, focused ultrasound (HIFU) for minimally invasive prostate cancer treatment.
Bioengineering Alumnus on COVID-19 Antiviral Pill Development Team
Jacobs School of Engineering alumnus Britton Boras earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering in 2015, conducting research with Professor Andrew McCulloch on multi-scale modeling of biological systems.
UC San Diego Receives $12.4M NIH Grant to Map the Human Nervous System
The National Institutes of Health have awarded UC San Diego a grant totaling $12.4 million. This will support a new research center dedicated to studying the human brain and central nervous system (CNS), specifically the ways they’re affected by HIV and opioids.
Major Contract Fuels Three-University Study of TMS for Treating Depression
UC San Diego School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Stanford Medicine have launched a three-year study to investigate new ways to treat or prevent major depression, accelerate effective treatments and develop predictive models to identify which treatments work best for individual patients.
Daily Activities Like Washing Dishes Reduced Heart Disease Risk in Senior Women
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego researchers studied the impact of daily life movement to cardiovascular disease risk using a machine-learning algorithm and found decrease in risk with increased activity.
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