November 16, 2017
…San Diego School of Medicine. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Pioneering Physiologist Establishes Endowed Chair at UC San Diego School of Medicine $2 million gift from Professor Emeritus John B. West will support teaching and research in respiratory physiology Physiologist John B. West, M.D., Ph.D., can claim many…
August 25, 2021
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has approved a trio of awards, totaling approximately $4 million, to UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers to advance studies of new stem cell-based treatments for multiple types of cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
July 9, 2020
…are underrepresented minorities in medicine navigate the final years of medical school The transition from second to third year of medical school can be jarring for any student. The first two years are primarily classroom-based, while the last two years are dedicated to clinical rotations—rounding through hospital units, seeing patients…
June 12, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that persons with lower blood levels of vitamin D were twice as likely to die prematurely as people with higher blood levels of vitamin D.
September 14, 2023
University of California San Diego School of Medicine’s Napoleone Ferrara, MD, has been named a 2023 Keio Medical Science Prize Laureate. Awarded annually by Keio University, Japan’s oldest private university, the award recognizes outstanding achievements in medicine and life sciences.
January 5, 2012
…has been selected as chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He has also been named the Helen M. Ranney Endowed Chair, the school’s first faculty-funded endowed chair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department’s second chair.
February 18, 2016
…researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and 12 other medical centers in the United States have shown that testosterone treatment for men over the age of 65 improves sexual function, walking ability and mood.
April 24, 2012
…departments of pathology and medicine at UC San Diego and longtime AIDS researcher. “We felt like battlefield doctors with the sick and dying coming in faster than we could treat them – if we could treat them at all.” Much has changed, of course. These days, scientists and physicians like…
April 1, 2021
…San Diego School of Medicine With a generous gift of $1.1 million, philanthropist Ann Bedell Hunt has established The Bedell Family Endowed Medical Scholarship at University of California San Diego School of Medicine in memory of her father, Omar Jaspering, and in honor of Dr. Simerjot K. Jassal, a primary…
July 24, 2012
Dr. Davey Smith, associate professor of medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Health System is one of three recipients of the 2012 Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS research.
