August 25, 2015
UC San Diego joins MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as elite campuses selected to be part of the Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. Program, and the foundation recently announced the first computer science student at UC San Diego to become a Sloan Scholar.
October 21, 2020
San Diego-based Cellics Therapeutics, which was co-founded by UC San Diego nanoengineering Professor Liangfang Zhang, has received an award of up to $15M to develop a macrophage cellular nanosponge—nanoparticles cloaked in the cell membranes of macrophages—designed to treat sepsis.
November 4, 2013
…shown encouraging results in animal models and human clinical trials. Mark H. Tuszynski, MD, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego Department of Neurosciences and director of the UC San Diego Translational Neuroscience Institute, investigates both the slowly evolving neurological damage of Alzheimer’s disease and the sudden, catastrophic consequences of…
May 1, 2023
UC San Diego is a hub for rare disease research. Although each rare disease impacts a small number of people, the research findings sometimes apply to more prevalent conditions.
August 19, 2024
UC San Diego will open the Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox on Aug. 29 as a unique world-class resource for science, education and training. Meet Uri Manor, the faculty director of the new facility, who comes to UC San Diego with a background filled with extraordinary challenges and successes.
September 5, 2019
Bioengineers and biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method to significantly extend the life of gene circuits used to instruct microbes to do things such as produce and deliver drugs, break down chemicals and serve as environmental sensors.
August 18, 2021
Neurobiologists have uncovered the mechanisms behind the maintenance and decline of key synapses implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. The findings suggest an alternative approach to addressing such brain disorders.
March 8, 2018
…into cells or whole animals, to watch molecules interact in real-time and ask questions once thought impossible. “Our work is often described as building and training molecular spies,” Tsien once said, “molecules that will enter a cell or organism and report back to us what the conditions are, what’s going…
October 20, 2014
UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center is pushing therapeutic stem cell-based science out of the laboratory and closer to real-world medical applications. The unprecedented trials involve potential therapies for spinal cord injuries, Type 1 diabetes and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
September 1, 2022
…to improve our service models and assessing the ease of access to materials in our physical and digital collections. I would like to extend a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s ULRP winners. We are proud of you for many reasons, including continuing UC San Diego’s tradition of producing innovative and…
