July 21, 2016
In recognition of the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) program at the University of California San Diego, which provides mentored training to postdocs in biomedical sciences, the National Institutes of Health has renewed its grant funding, lengthened the term and increased the number of supported postdoctoral scholars.
January 26, 2024
School of Medicine student research on display at Summer Research Symposium.
June 13, 2013
…Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts. These scholars will each receive $240,000 over the next four years to pursue research projects without restriction that are focused on solving some of the nation’s most perplexing health problems—including diabetes, autism, Parkinson’s disease and cancer. Andrew Huberman, an…
June 6, 2022
Marine biologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have created a line of sea urchins whose genetic makeup is fully mapped and can be edited to study human disease genes. The creation of these new research model organisms will accelerate the pace of marine biomedical research.
April 24, 2024
Wonjun Yim, who earned a PhD in materials science at the University of California San Diego, is one of 32 researchers selected from the world’s leading science and engineering institutions to receive a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellowship.
September 29, 2022
Innovation Night is San Diego’s premier networking event that brings together leaders from San Diego’s biotech, life sciences, high tech, clean tech, defense, telecommunications and associated industries for an extraordinary evening at La Jolla Playhouse.
April 3, 2014
…Eye Center will investigate biomedical advances to reverse vision loss and blindness A $6.5 million gift from a grateful patient will create the Richard C. Atkinson Laboratory for Regenerative Ophthalmology in the department of ophthalmology at the UC San Diego Shiley Eye Center. The new lab will investigate cell replacement…
May 26, 2016
…get started, she Googled “biomedical researchers in San Diego” and came across Dr. Victor Nizet, a professor and infectious disease researcher in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. She decided to email him. Nizet was impressed and, as a wearer of contact lenses himself, curious. He responded within two…
December 19, 2024
SMART, a new software package developed by researchers at UC San Diego, can make studying signaling processes significantly easier. Results could accelerate research in fields across the life sciences, such as systems biology, pharmacology and biomedical engineering.
September 20, 2011
Two scientists at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health for research projects “that challenge the status quo with innovative ideas that have the potential to propel fields forward and speed the translation of research into improved health for…
