March 11, 2021
…such as manufacturing and medicine. The team is currently working with the JGI to sequence the genomes of 10 different types of biosynthetically “gifted" red seaweeds found in San Diego, something that has never been done before. “I’m excited to read some of the first genome sequences from red algae…
June 16, 2022
…San Diego’s School of Medicine Alondra Osuna Orozco (seated third from the left) with Triton Transfer Hub peer coaches and program manager Jackie Duerr (far right back row). “My supervisor at the Triton Transfer Hub, Jackie Duerr, has had a great impact on my journey at UC San Diego. This…
April 21, 2016
…Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and was attended by more than 150 Chancellor’s Associates donors, faculty, staff, students and guests. The event was hosted by Faculty Excellence Awards Selection Committee Chair Karen Garsson ’88 and celebrated the accomplishments of UC San Diego faculty as a whole, while highlighting the important…
March 17, 2022
…and girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to shape a better world. From March 5 to 27, the Smithsonian will present “#IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit,” a collection of 120 statues of women in STEM—the largest collection of statues of women ever assembled in one location, at one time.…
June 19, 2012
…includes a School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, two hospitals, and multiple primary and specialty care outpatient centers. This is a dynamic campus and it needs a dynamic leader. What was your reaction when Pradeep Khosla was chosen as UC San Diego’s eighth Chancellor? I am…
November 18, 2021
…the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine COVID-19 Task Force. COVID-19 infections are more severe in pregnant people “Early on in the second trimester, women become more short of breath,” said Dr. Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, chair and professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UC San Diego Health. “As the uterus grows…
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…
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…
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…
