July 21, 2023
Researchers have created a resource for analyzing how viruses infect human cells. The fruit fly-based toolkit provides a shortcut for assessing SARS-CoV-2 genes and understanding how they interact with human proteins, offering researchers a resource for new COVID-related drug therapies.
October 10, 2019
…access to world-class sports medicine and orthopedics care, including emerging surgical and regenerative techniques, advanced diagnostics and comprehensive rehabilitation for peak performance. UC San Diego Athletics and its scholar-athletes will also benefit from UC San Diego Health’s expertise in primary and preventive care, nutrition education, massage therapy and other programs…
February 13, 2014
…Awarded the 2008 National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama, Venter and his team sequenced the first full genome of a free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, in 1995. He made worldwide headlines again in 2000 when his team tied a rival team in a furious race to be…
November 14, 2019
…living laboratory for new technologies. “We’re trying to understand how we can use vehicles to do “last mile” logistics: that is, when autonomous vehicles get off the freeway and onto crowded streets that they have to share with other vehicles and pedestrians,” said Henrik Christensen, director of the Contextual Robotics…
April 19, 2018
…students; how countless jobs, technologies and companies can be traced back to UC; and the university giving rise to the birth of the free speech movement. California’s university The University of California was founded on March 23, 1868 on the principle that college should be accessible to all Californians. What…
March 17, 2022
…environmental issues to developing technology that will enable more and better access to our world-class patient care, our world-renowned teams will be able to continue to work toward discovery of solutions that deliver meaningful impacts for our community.” UC San Diego projects approved for community funding include: Southern California DDT…
August 19, 2019
…world’s greatest producers of technology, medical innovations and scientific knowledge—launched the Institute for Practical Ethics. Loyal campus donors Joel and Ann Reed provided $1 million to create an endowment for permanent support in the future. Arts and Humanities Dean Cristina Della Coletta noted, “Through the Institute for Practical Ethics, UC…
June 9, 2022
…Intellectual Transformation New connections, medical facilities, labs, housing and places to reflect, innovate and celebrate Transformation by the Numbers 103% increase in annual revenues (from $3.4B to $6.9B) 62% increase in research funding (from $1.01B to $1.68B) 365% increase in the endowment (from $555M to $2.58B) 95% increase in first-year…
November 10, 2022
Walt Kanzler, UC San Diego’s senior director of Project Quality Management, has been selected as a 2022 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) fellow joining the ranks of fewer than 300 LEED fellows around the world.
October 3, 2019
…of the School of Medicine, the Healthy Aging major and minor will equip students across disciplines to work with the aging population in medicine, research, industry, with families, and within our communities. Both the major and minor are designed to complement a wide variety of other majors and minors, including…
