February 22, 2024
UC San Diego Assistant Professors Vineet Augustine, Abdoulaye Ndao and Monique Smith have been selected to receive 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships. They are among 126 scientists chosen by the Sloan Foundation to receive one of the most prestigious awards for early career scientists.
November 10, 2016
…make future progress in medicine, genetics and the life sciences. “In quantitative biology, we’re applying the quantitative approaches that physicists and chemists have successfully used to discover order in the physical world, to unravel the complexity of the biological world,” explained Terry Hwa, a UC San Diego professor of physics…
August 26, 2016
…San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have identified RNA-based biomarkers that distinguish between normal, aging hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia stem cells associated with secondary acute myeloid leukemia (sAML), a particularly problematic disease that typically afflicts older patients who have often already experienced a bout with cancer.
November 19, 2020
…billion each year in medical expenses and another $16 billion in lost earnings in America alone, according to researchers at UC San Diego. Rommie Amaro, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. Teeing up on the science behind the flu virus is Rommie Amaro and J. Andrew…
February 21, 2014
Philip M. Smith, the founding co-chair of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) Advisory Board, passed away on February 16, 2014, after a brief illness.
October 1, 2012
Two proteins previously found to contribute to ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, have divergent roles. But a new study, led by researchers at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, shows that a common pathway links them.
February 12, 2020
A public-private partnership with UC San Diego’s Design Lab will help rural cancer patients design digital health care solutions
March 28, 2016
…from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.
October 23, 2014
…The largest STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) diversity event in the country, the 2014 conference brought together more than 3,800 students and science professionals of color for a weekend of cutting-edge science, mentoring, networking and professional development.Over 600 professionals from the nation’s top institutions come annually to the SACNAS…
May 9, 2024
UC San Diego researchers found that, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people experiencing homelessness and people who inject drugs in San Diego and Tijuana often did not have access to drinking water, toilets, handwashing and showers.
