January 30, 2014
Eight stem cell scientists at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded a total of $8.165 million to fund research tackling significant, unresolved issues in human stem cell biology.
February 8, 2017
Jonathan Singer, one of the first members of the biology faculty at UC San Diego who helped build the campus into a world leader in molecular and cell biology, died on February 2 in La Jolla, CA. He was 92.
May 23, 2023
A $2.5 million initiative supported by philanthropists Irwin and Joan Jacobs has created the Stuart and Barbara L. Brody Endowed Chair in Circadian Biology and Medicine, along with a supporting research fund, to target largely unexplored areas related to circadian biology and patient health.
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.
February 10, 2017
…International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) has announced the winners of its top four awards for 2017, and leading the list is UC San Diego computer-science professor Pavel Pevzner. The Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award honors Pevzner’s almost 30 years in the field of bioinformatics, and in particular his…
February 26, 2015
…earned his Ph.D. in biology in 1973, focusing on peptide chemistry and molecular genetics. He then went on to receive his M.D. from SUNY Stony Brook, with an internship in Internal Medicine. He completed his residency in pathology at UC San Francisco, then continued there as a postdoctoral fellow and…
October 6, 2015
…as pharmacology and toxicology (4), neuroscience and behavior (6), biology and biochemistry (6), psychiatry and psychology (7), computer science (9), as well as molecular biology and genetics (10).
October 15, 2015
A Mentor for Success Biology professor strives to serve as example for students from diverse backgrounds Gentry Patrick Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Like many faculty members at UC San Diego, Gentry Patrick arrived on campus with sterling academic credentials: An undergraduate degree from the University of California,…
April 9, 2020
…Deep Look into the Biology and Evolution of COVID-19 UCTV roundtable explores the biological roots and spread of the global SARS-CoV-2 virus Of the hundreds of coronaviruses known to exist, many are relatively harmless. Coronaviruses infect your nose, sinuses and upper throat but often result in nothing more than a…
February 22, 2018
UC San Diego biology and bioengineering professor Jeff Hasty and lab member Robert Cooper have come up with a model for predicting the conditions under which antibiotic resistance spreads in a clinically relevant bacterium. Researchers Film Bacteria Using “Hand-to-Hand” Combat to Steal Antibiotic Resistance Genes Researchers at the University of…
