November 25, 2019
Fifty-two faculty members and researchers at the University of California San Diego are among the world’s most influential in their fields, according to the Web of Science’s 2019 listing.
January 21, 2021
…San Diego bioengineering and microbiology alumnus, is president and CEO of Lucira Health. UC San Diego Alumnus at Helm of Company Behind First At-Home COVID Test In November 2020, Lucira Health received emergency use authorization for the first rapid at-home COVID-19 test from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Erik…
October 22, 2020
The University of California San Diego has once again been recognized as the nation’s sixth best public university, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2021 Best Global Universities.
July 2, 2020
…at the crossroads of microbiology, neurobiology and infectious disease research. Using modern biological tools, including a see-through fish that reveals infection pathways, Madigan believes exotic infectious diseases may hold clues to more modern afflictions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. In this new faculty profile, she discusses her scientific interests, European…
October 6, 2015
The University of California, San Diego is named the 19th best university in the world in U.S. News and World Report’s second-annual global rankings, released today. The campus is one of only five public universities in the U.S. to make the top 20 in the list of the world’s top…
October 23, 2024
UC San Diego campus photographer Erik Jepson captures the moment on Aug. 8, 2024 when the setting sun intersects with the piers of the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier.
February 22, 2016
…virus. The study, published February 22, 2016 in Nature Microbiology, identifies a new mechanism for controlling HIV replication and its interaction with the host immune system.
February 13, 2014
…last 70 years of microbiology, DNA sequencing and how we’ve gone from being able to first understand what the genetic code even is, to being able to read it and put it in the computer,” Venter explained. “I call that digitizing biology, so it’s converting the A’s, C’s, G’s and…
March 20, 2020
Partnering with five diagnostics manufacturers, UC San Diego is significantly ramping up testing for COVID-19, projecting capacity to complete up to 1,500 tests daily within two to three weeks.
October 18, 2022
Victor Nizet, MD, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Pharmacy at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
