April 2, 2014
…research team led by bioengineer Gert Cauwenberghs is working to understand how the brain circuitry controls how we move. The goal is to develop new technologies to help patients with Parkinson’s disease and other debilitating medical conditions navigate the world on their own. Their research is funded by the National…
October 30, 2020
Research proposals by Professors Michael Burkart and Jon Pokorski were selected for funding as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Plastics Innovation Challenge to accelerate energy-efficient plastics recycling technologies.
November 26, 2012
Biologists at UC San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that marine algae can be just as capable as fresh water algae in producing biofuels. The scientists genetically engineered marine algae to produce five different kinds of industrially important enzymes and say the same process they used could be…
May 1, 2024
By facilitating partnerships, strengthening the network of support, and providing access to financial resources, the Talent Foundry aims to diversify and fortify San Diego’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, particularly in tech, biotech, blue tech and life science.
June 27, 2024
UC San Diego Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Itay Budin teamed up with researchers from around the country to study the cell membranes of ctenophores (“comb jellies”) and found they had unique lipid structures that allow them to live under intense pressure.
May 29, 2012
…of physicists, biologists, chemists, bioengineers and psychologists received a five-year, $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the dynamic principles of collective brain activity. You can read more about their efforts here. This is just one of many research iniatitives supported by defense-related funding at UC…
January 7, 2016
…more interdisciplinary collaboration among bioengineers, materials scientists, biologists, and clinical doctors to focus on 3D printing patient-specific functional tissues and organs, we could help more people get the lifesaving organ transplants they need before it’s too late,” says Chen. Offer intentional instruction in network literacy Alan J. Daly, professor and…
November 17, 2016
…(she’s now working with bioengineers and biologists formulating models of biological systems), much of Williams’ research continues to be theoretical, sketched out in her office, she said, “with a pencil and a yellow pad of paper.” While computers, she said, have become a powerful tool for mathematicians, in her case…
March 12, 2012
New green methods for making hydrogen fuels. Microrockets that can circulate in the human body without external fuel. Improved seismic safety in hospitals and other structures. New approaches to help utilities integrate solar power into the energy grid.
July 18, 2012
Researchers from UC San Diego, the University of California Los Angeles and Indiana University report having found, for the first time, that atrial fibrillation or irregular heart rhythms is caused by small electrical sources within the heart, in the form of electrical spinning tops (“rotors”) or focal beats. Importantly, they…
