May 9, 2023
Last month at the UC San Diego Faculty Club, the university’s Community Engaged Learning and Anti-Racist Pedagogy Learning Community graduate student and faculty fellows showcased their transformative work to the campus community for the first time.
March 13, 2017
Each year, at precisely the same moment — 12 p.m. on the East coast, 9 a.m. on the West — thousands of graduating medical school students across the country simultaneously tear open an envelope. The single sheet of paper inside informs each graduate where he or she will do their…
September 20, 2022
A national team of scientists, led by researchers at UC San Diego, have created a machine-learning algorithm for diagnosing both MIS-C and Kawasaki disease, two similar pediatric inflammatory conditions with different treatments.
May 5, 2022
…hit their head, to adolescents playing sports or falling out of trees, to people in motor vehicle accidents. Kwon works at the crux of two burgeoning fields: biological nanomaterials and neuroscience. There are currently no treatments to stop the long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and accurate diagnosis…
January 29, 2015
…studies of children and adolescents, with the goal of identifying the social, cultural and educational factors that contribute to their growth and well-being. The institute will also facilitate collaborative research that aims to better explain the observations made in children by studying basic cellular and molecular mechanisms that may play…
August 24, 2021
UC San Diego researchers identify the mutational drivers for gastrointestinal stroma tumors in the stomach and find a potential drug to treat a subset of GIST tumors afflicting the young.
November 17, 2016
…whether providing bicycles to adolescent girls improves their chances of staying in secondary school. He is now also growing his research program to include experiments with the use of technology in education. “Technology by itself does not solve anything,” he said. “But we are starting to see evidence that personalized…
October 31, 2013
…cancers common to children, adolescents and young adults. “I came with a dream and a vision, and I used each course at Rady to add to the toolset that I needed to bring forth the Nicholas Conor Institute,” she said. “The Rady MBA has helped me in two ways,” states…
January 23, 2020
…trial might enroll two adolescent participants. To participate in the clinical trial, individuals must meet specific eligibility requirements. Later in the trial, Cherqui and team will begin measuring how well the treatment actually works. The specific objectives include assessing the degree to which gene-modified stem cells establish themselves in bone…
December 6, 2022
Researchers from a broad range of fields at the University of California San Diego are making waves as they push the boundaries of science and medicine to develop groundbreaking, real-world solutions to longstanding health inequities.
