October 10, 2013
…increase because of our aging population. The applications from such purely academic research may take decades, but the economic and societal payoffs can be huge. One of our former biology professors, Gordon Sato, did basic research on growth factors here in the 1980s and was involved in the discovery of…
September 28, 2023
UC San Diego-powered startups, incubators and accelerator programs took center stage during the second annual Innovation Day at Petco Park, highlighting the university’s world-class, dynamic innovation ecosystem.
July 23, 2019
UC San Diego researchers have used the transcriptome — the sum of all messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules expressed from genes — to map protein-gene interactions involved in Alzheimer’s disease.
July 26, 2021
UC San Diego Health, the region’s only academic health system, is ranked #1 in San Diego and #5 in California, placing it among the nation’s best hospitals, according to the 2021-2022 U.S. News & World Report survey. UC San Diego Health was ranked in the top 50 in 10 specialties.
April 6, 2023
After decades of working in industry and academia, biophysicists Alex Savtchenko and Elena Molokanova still have big dreams.
March 30, 2015
Working closely with other campus entities to translate ideas from the lab into products and companies in the marketplace, the Qualcomm Institute has launched an Innovation Space where qualified faculty startups, industry partners or national laboratories can lease office or lab space inside the research institute’s headquarters building on the…
March 27, 2014
On April 10, 2014, the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California, San Diego will kick off its Spring 2014 exhibition, Senses of Care: Mediated Ability and Interdependence, in the gallery@calit2. The opening of the exhibition will feature a talk by the curatorial team, led by UC San Diego associate…
June 12, 2014
…Diego to help her aging parents. “My dad is 93 and my mother is 83, so I wanted to be here for them,” she said. "In the '60s, in high school, I was not counseled to go to college as most students are now, but as soon as I returned…
April 7, 2020
Experts at UC San Diego are available to discuss the novel coronavirus, the COVID-19 illness and the societal impacts of the pandemic.
November 3, 2016
…and delivery drones. An aging, and sometimes ailing, population. More complex and automated factories. These are just some of the changes coming to the United States in the next decades. Friday, more than 200 engineers and social scientists, from industry and the university, came together on campus to discuss how…
