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Two Novel Biobanks Offer Investigatory Targets for Cocaine and Oxycodone Addiction

April 26, 2021

Researchers have created to novel biobanks of diverse tissues from animals to further explore the biological bases and consequences of addiction to cocaine and oxycodone.

Qualcomm Institute’s CARI Therapeutics Awarded NIH Grant for Opioid Sensor

August 10, 2017

QI Innovation Space member CARI Therapeutics has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to collaboratively develop a biosensor that will detect the presence of opioids in patients in recovery.

Addiction Treatment Innovation Launches at the Qualcomm Institute

December 4, 2015

The Clinical Addiction Recovery Institute (C.A.R.I.), has announced that it will join the University of California, San Diego community as one of the newest members of the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space (QIIIS). 

Breaking Ground

October 27, 2016

…applications ranging from human health to sustainable energy sources.” The Kavli Foundation was founded in 2000 by the late Fred Kavli, a business leader and philanthropist. The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind was established at UC San Diego in 2004 to further our understanding of human cognition, from the…

NIH Awards UC San Diego Researchers $14.3 Million to Continue 4D Nucleome Research

October 13, 2020

Diverse teams across University of California San Diego, with collaborators elsewhere, have received two 5-year grants totaling $14.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund to continue their work as a 4D Nucleome Research Hub and Center.

A Voice for the Underrepresented Named to Panel Advising Biden on Cancer ‘Moonshot’

April 21, 2016

…at UC San Diego Health. “Vice President Joe Biden’s commitment to allocate new resources to cancer research and his call to action that has brought experts, like our own María Elena Martínez, together is an opportunity to transform scientific discoveries and change how we prevent and treat cancer for the…

‘Winkin’, Blinkin’ and Nod’ Nets Major NIH Research Funding

November 8, 2018

…the National Institutes of Health. Scientists from the University of California San Diego, Ben Gurion University, Duke University and Laval University, with support from colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and the HHMI Janelia Research Center, will conduct the research to explore how mammals sniff, nod, and move their faces…

Mapping the Mind

April 4, 2013

…Director, National Institutes of Health, at the BRAIN Initiative event in the East Room of the White House, April 2, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) The President of the United States gathered together on April 2 “some of the smartest people in the country, some of the…

Remote Italian Village Could Harbor Secrets of Healthy Aging

March 29, 2016

To understand how people can live longer throughout the world, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have teamed up with colleagues at University of Rome La Sapienza to study a group of 300 citizens, all over 100 years old, living in a remote Italian village nestled…

Even DNA that Doesn’t Encode Genes Can Drive Cancer

April 2, 2018

The vast majority of genetic mutations associated with cancer occur in non-coding regions of the genome, yet it’s unclear how they may influence tumor development or growth. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center identified nearly 200 mutations in non-coding DNA that play…

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