January 24, 2022
A joint gift to the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California San Diego totaling $50 million from the Epstein Family Foundation will drive Alzheimer’s research and accelerate the search for treatments and a cure.
June 5, 2012
…pharmacy students; and pathology, neurology, and neurosurgery residents. He has also mentored countless students. No other faculty member has demonstrated such breadth and depth of teaching over such a sustained period while also playing a major role in the administration of teaching. One former student, who is currently the chief…
August 13, 2024
A traumatic brain injury ended Caden Taffe’s ability to play football, yet he has channeled his talents into running hurdles.
May 19, 2016
…(including cognitive science, psychology, neurology and psychiatry), nanoscience and radiology, chemistry and physics, computer science and mathematics. Top-ranked researchers across many disciplines and a spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration, fostered in part by UC San Diego’s relative youth among major research universities, has been an attractive lure to attract senior scientists…
February 26, 2024
Qualcomm Institute Director Ramesh Rao chats with Roland Lee and Mingxiong Huang, who co-direct QI’s new Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center on the underpinnings of the advanced brain imaging technique, the making of the new facility, and MEG’s contributions to research and patient care.
January 12, 2017
…and materials for endovascular neurologic therapies. He served as the assistant dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs from 2011-2015 at Boston University School of Medicine, where he led multiple initiatives to enhance diversity and inclusion. He holds a Master’s of Science in management from Harvard School of Public Health with…
July 23, 2020
…that it may improve neurological recovery.” The idea is to use oxygen under pressure to reduce brain swelling and oxygenate neurological tissues, reducing or replacing the inflammatory response with a restorative one. Patients rest in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber equivalent in size to a small school bus for approximately two…
September 21, 2011
For the first time ever, a surgical team led by Alan Hemming, MD, has successfully performed a domino transplant using a liver with a rare genetic disorder called methylmalonic acidemia (MMA).
May 14, 2012
A clinical study of 30 adult patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has shown that smoked cannabis may be an effective treatment for spasticity – a common and disabling symptom of this neurological disease.
August 15, 2013
Research led by scientists from the University of California, San Diego has decoded the genetic basis of chronic mountain sickness (CMS) or Monge’s disease. Their study provides important information that validates the genetic basis of adaptation to high altitudes, and provides potential targets for CMS treatment.
