March 5, 2024
Terrence Sejnowski has been selected to receive the 2024 Brain Prize, the world’s largest neuroscience prize, for his pioneering work in computational and theoretical neuroscience, contributions to our understanding of the brain and paving the way for the development of brain-inspired AI.
May 11, 2017
…Computer science department opens high-tech teaching lab for undergraduates The laboratory looks like a cross between a classroom and a tech pavilion at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There are virtual-reality headsets everywhere, and large flat screen 3D displays. College students work at computers, while teammates wearing…
February 13, 2024
Type 2 diabetes alters the behavior of discs in the vertebral column, making them stiffer, and also causes the discs to change shape earlier than normal. As a result, the disc’s ability to withstand pressure is compromised.
September 10, 2024
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography to receive a four-year, $10 million grant to establish the Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments. The center’s goal will be to understand how climate change may impact the nervous systems and behavior…
July 20, 2016
Professor Emeritus Stanford S. “Sol” Penner, one of the founders and creators of the engineering program at the University of California San Diego, passed away on July 15, 2016 at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 95 years old.
December 10, 2020
…has resumed previously paused medical services. This allowed Cohen, and colleagues Dr. Gregory Daniels and Dr. Aaron Miller, to reinitiate the phase I TIL trial. The clinical trial is a collaboration between UC San Diego and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. The goal is to advance TIL therapy and…
February 6, 2020
…companies and facial recognition technology. Ford and de Piña had not met before the event, but their interests aligned well. Together, they filled up a dry erase board with their ideas, centered on addressing racial stigmas in health care. Their concept paired artificial intelligence software to track interactions between doctors…
June 18, 2020
…in the Department of Medicine. Previously, he served as associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research efforts focus on speeding momentum in the field of myeloma research, which is the second most common blood cancer. Through immunotherapy innovations, his vision is to provide new hope to patients and…
April 26, 2018
…for many of the technological developments that enabled this transformation. “I can’t think of another area of research that scientists and engineers are involved in that has a more profound effect on our routine way of living,” said George Tynan, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Associate Dean of…
April 30, 2024
Rates of HIV transmission increased when the U.S./Mexico border was closed for COVID-19, according to a new study from University of California San Diego and Irvine.
