October 30, 2020
Research proposals by Professors Michael Burkart and Jon Pokorski were selected for funding as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Plastics Innovation Challenge to accelerate energy-efficient plastics recycling technologies.
March 19, 2018
Each year people all over the world die from the flu. To protect against influenza epidemics and their potentially mortal results, medical professionals encourage vaccination. While generally effective for healthy individuals, vaccinations are less effective for the elderly, the immunocompromised and other high-risk groups. For the healthy, getting a shot…
June 18, 2018
Human activities—from growing rice and burning coal or wood, to driving cars and testing nuclear missiles—have impacted the Earth’s atmosphere over time. Cleansing the Earth’s environment is of growing interest in the new era of humanity, unofficially called the Anthropocene epoch. To better understand the impact of the human biogeochemical…
May 29, 2012
…from new technologies and medicines to alternative fuels and climate research,” said Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown. Most recently, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at UC San Diego composed of physicists, biologists, chemists, bioengineers and psychologists received a five-year, $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to…
November 27, 2013
…at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, have identified a potential new weapon and approach for attacking the parasites that cause malaria.
April 26, 2018
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine are preparing a first-of-its-kind, multidisciplinary investigation to determine if and how cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant, provides therapeutic benefit to children with severe symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.
November 9, 2023
Women produce physiological data that is just as predictable as men, at least when it comes to skin temperature. This might seem like common sense, but variations in body signals due to menstrual cycles, such as temperature, were used as an excuse to keep women out of clinical studies for…
November 8, 2018
…designed to change the world for the better—through new medicines, innovative technologies and more that will help address disease, global security, public policy, climate change and more.
June 15, 2017
…Products like renewable plastics, medicines and even clean water.” While progress in this area of research is moving ahead at a rapid pace toward commercialization, organizers of this year’s conference, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, concede the meeting comes at particularly…
December 6, 2018
…designed to change the world for the better—through new medicines, innovative technologies and more that will help address disease, global security, public policy, climate change and more.
