August 28, 2024
…the laboratory of Dr. Kevin King, associate professor of bioengineering and medicine, and a cardiologist at the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, report the discovery of a novel mechanism of cardiac inflammation that may expand therapeutic opportunities to prevent heart attacks from becoming heart failure.
July 13, 2018
Nine teams of UC San Diego students, faculty and other researchers who have developed novel innovations that could improve various aspects of health care, have been awarded proof-of-concept awards designed to help bring their campus inventions to commercial use.
February 14, 2013
…Saad, doctoral student in bioengineering Siebel Scholar Helen Saad Fascinated by human intelligence, Helen Saad is delving into brain research in bioengineering professor Gabriel Silva’s laboratory. Through theoretical work guided by experimental findings, Saad aims to better elucidate how brain structure and connectivity, synaptic strength, and neuronal excitability are regulated…
October 3, 2019
Bioengineering Pioneer Y.C. Bert Fung Turns 100 Thousands of professors, engineers, scientists and students around the world work in the field of biomechanics, the study of physics and mechanics applied to living tissues. But they are all somehow connected to Professor Y.C. “Bert” Fung at the University of California San…
February 24, 2017
Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new tool to identify RNA-DNA interactions. The tool can provide a full account of all the RNA molecules that interact with a segment of DNA, as well as the locations of all these interactions — in just a single…
September 19, 2018
Five Jacobs School of Engineering graduate students working to improve immunology, cardiac health, blood transfusions and our understanding of the genome have been named 2019 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science.
April 1, 2012
…Chien University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine and Director of the UC San Diego Institute of Engineering in Medicine Award - 2012 Honorary Doctor of Science from Columbia University Jack Dixon Professor of Pharmacology, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Chemistry and Biochemistry Award - Foreign Members of the Royal Society Fellow…
February 14, 2013
…fields of psychology, microbiology, bioengineering and nanoengineering. Read More » “UC San Diego’s ability to advance research and impact the regional economy is directly related to the quality of its faculty and student body,” said Steve Relyea, vice chancellor for External and Business Affairs. “We thank the many generous donors…
May 4, 2017
…Silva, a professor of bioengineering and neurosciences at UC San Diego, who leads the Center for Engineered Natural Intelligence. “The algorithms we are developing and the engineering we are doing to push the limits of artificial intelligence are also allowing us to approach the study of the biological brain as…
January 3, 2013
In a novel use of gene knockout technology, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine tested the same gene inserted into 90 different locations in a yeast chromosome –and discovered that while the inserted gene never altered its surrounding chromatin landscape, differences in that immediate landscape…
