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Twelve New Faculty to Be Hired to Design Just Futures

Up to 12 new faculty members will be hired at UC San Diego whose work centers on designing just futures, particularly for Indigenous, Black and migrant communities.

Engineers Develop New Magnetic Ink to Print Self-Healing Devices That Heal in Record Time

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a magnetic ink that can be used to make self-healing batteries, electrochemical sensors and wearable, textile-based electrical circuits. The key ingredient for the ink is microparticles oriented in a certain configuration by a magnetic field. Because of…

Surprising Beauty Found in Bacterial Cultures

Researchers at University of California San Diego have discovered that when certain microbes pair up, stunning floral patterns emerge. When non-motile E. coli are placed on an agar surface together with motile A. baylyi, the E. coli “catch a wave” at the front of the expanding A. baylyi colony.

Researchers Identify Brain Circuits Tied to the Behavior of Schooling Fish

UC San Diego researchers have uncovered the roots of group behavior in the brains of schooling fish. Glassfish, they found, depend on their sense of vision to coordinate social swimming behavior in schools and increase their ability to follow coordinated group movements as they mature.

NIH Awards $6.9 Million to Advance Potential Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment

Researchers from UC San Diego are working on a new treatment for Alzheimer’s that targets tau - a type of protein in the brain that helps cells retain their stability and structure.

Biochemists’ Discovery Could Lead to Vaccine Against ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria

Biochemists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered patterns in the outer protein coat of group A Streptococcus that could finally lead to a vaccine against this highly infectious bacteria—responsible for more than 500,000 deaths a year, including toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis or “flesh-eating disease.”

Novel Drug Prevents Amyloid Plaques, a Hallmark of Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and elsewhere have identified a new drug that could prevent AD by modulating, rather than inhibiting, a key enzyme involved in forming amyloid plaques.

Research Growth Tops $1.76B With Tremendous Portfolio of Discovery and Invention

University of California San Diego earned $1.76 billion in research funding last fiscal year, a 6 percent increase over the previous year.

Center for AIDS Research Receives $15 Million Renewal Grant From NIH

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a five-year, $15.45 million grant to the San Diego Center for AIDS Research at UC San Diego, renewing support that extends back to an original establishing grant in 1994 at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Town Halls Shed Light on Federal Changes Affecting Researchers

…Angela Phillips Diaz, Executive Director of Government Research Relations, engaged in frank discussions with faculty and listened to their concerns about regulations and other problems affecting their ability to secure research funding as well as new regulations impacting their research. Some of the most important opportunities and changes Brown and…

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