May 16, 2013
…the way to new treatments, Greenspan said. The technologies developed and advances in understanding brain networks will also likely have industrial applications outside of medicine, he said. The new center will bring together researchers from neuroscience (including cognitive science, psychology, neurology and psychiatry), engineering, nanoscience, radiology, chemistry, physics, computer science…
January 9, 2014
…for example, collaborate in novel and surprising ways to solve real-world problems. “Taking on those ‘most pressing challenges’ increasingly involves insights, expertise, technologies and data sets from diverse areas of science and scholarship,” she says. “When titular oceanographers are finding compounds to fight earth-bound diseases such as anthrax, or helping…
December 8, 2016
…patient’s heart and recommend treatment. “It looks like there is fat here where there shouldn’t be,” says the physician as he pointed to a spot on the screen. “See how this part of the heart isn’t contracting?” These students are part of a new UC San Diego clinical bioengineering class…
June 18, 2015
…rate with new research, treatments and technology emerging on a near-daily basis…with UC San Diego leading the way.” J. Craig Venter. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Venter, who established a $37 million research facility at UC San Diego in 2014 as part of the J. Craig Venter Institute…
November 7, 2013
…Chang will continue the novel work of his honors thesis by considering cognition through a number of theoretical and disciplinary filters. “I am really thankful and appreciative that the Katzins chose to help out in this way,” he said. “Both the stipend and the feel-good effect that comes with the…
June 4, 2020
…effort to track the novel coronavirus and better position the university to resume in-person activities in the fall 2020. “Based on my understanding about COVID-19, the most efficient way of opening the economy is to screen more people,” said Gary Shekhter. “Screening gives us an understanding of what’s going on…
November 12, 2021
…Help Treat COVID-19? A novel study is assessing whether medicinal mushrooms and Chinese herbs provide therapeutic benefit in treating acute COVID-19 infection. MACH-19 (Mushrooms and Chinese Herbs for COVID-19—a multi-center study led by University of California San Diego and UCLA—is among the first to evaluate these specific integrative medicine approaches…
July 30, 2020
…chaos resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic that just three months earlier laid the foundation for Mud and Lotus Farms. Until the pandemic, times were good. Tourists looking to dine on freshly caught lobster would jockey for a table with the same spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean that the…
April 12, 2018
…game and is using novel techniques from minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery. “We are tirelessly searching for new treatments and techniques to preserve our patients’ heart and lungs so that transplantation is not needed.” Geertsen was breathing easier shortly after surgery. “My cheeks were pinker. My hands were not…
September 26, 2023
A fresh academic year has officially begun at UC San Diego and the campus is bustling with activity. More than 150,000 first year and transfer students applied to join the university, over 32,000 were admitted and an estimated 10,000 new undergraduate students are expected to enroll this fall.
