September 1, 2022
…San Diego School of Medicine. Daniel’s research involved working with biomarkers and immune responses in the Ongkeko Lab. While normally focused on cancers, with the ongoing pandemic, he naturally turned his attention toward applying these ideas toward COVID-19 patients. His research led him towards studying the risk factors of breakthrough…
May 17, 2018
…San Diego School of Medicine. To tease out the identities of the bacteria living in a participant’s mixed sample, the American Gut Project team sequences a genetic marker unique to bacteria and archaea. Called 16S rRNA, this molecule acts as a sort of barcode for these microbes. For thousands of…
January 30, 2020
…is the STEM field—science, technology, engineering, and math. Now the nice thing is, there are a lot of different options within those fields. All of those fields could lead to a career like this one. To become an astronaut, you do have to have a degree in one of those…
April 5, 2018
…actively embraces the latest technology to facilitate comprehension and foster dynamic lecture environments. Antonovics infuses humor and real-world relevance into rigorous course work and inventively records online instructional videos. She coauthored an acclaimed textbook series with Ben Bernanke and has taught more than 8,200 students in the past decade, consistently…
January 24, 2022
A joint gift to the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California San Diego totaling $50 million from the Epstein Family Foundation will drive Alzheimer’s research and accelerate the search for treatments and a cure.
June 4, 2020
…in the School of Medicine to help develop and patent Epinoma, a blood test to screen for liver cancer. “It’s by far one of the most intriguing ideas that I’ve been fortunate to work on,” he said. “Our discussions with various oncologists and cancer patients highlighted some of the most…
March 9, 2017
…monitor environmental changes through technological advancement, and improving the public’s ability to adapt to climate change consequences such as increasingly frequent heat waves and the spread of vector-borne illnesses. “These appointments represent UC San Diego’s nontraditional approach to solving the most pressing problems facing our world. We acknowledge that only…
December 7, 2017
…San Diego School of Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering UC San Diego Researcher Named Semi-Finalist for Women’s Safety XPRIZE UC San Diego’s Debashis Sahoo is one of 21 semi-finalists in the $1 million Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE, which challenges competitors around the world to develop technological…
December 6, 2018
…that mobilizes scientific and technological expertise to create practical problem-solving for sustainable development through the United Nations (U.N.). Created in 2012, SDSN is charged with implementing both the Paris Climate Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals—bold global objectives U.N. member nations set for themselves to end poverty and hunger, ensure access…
February 6, 2014
…from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Indiana University, have identified a protein that broadly regulates how genetic information transcribed from DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA) is processed and ultimately translated into the myriad of proteins necessary for life.
