October 15, 2018
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego Health, professor of medicine and associate dean for informatics and technology at the School of Medicine, and a founding faculty member of UC San Diego Halicioğlu Data Science Institute, has been elected to the National…
October 25, 2012
…of several types of cancer. In one example, preclinical studies have shown that blocking this receptor inhibits undifferentiated stem cells within breast cancer tumors, leading to the death of all tumor cell types and stopping them from seeding new tumors. Opella and colleagues hope this finding along with continuing studies…
November 21, 2019
…like those with esophageal cancer.” Rafael Carranza of Special Delivery San Diego accepts trays of leftover food from Blaze Fernades, catering lead at UC San Diego Medical Center, that will be delivered by the nonprofit group to San Diegans facing food insecurity. In the 1990s, Henricks, a restauranteur, began to…
December 5, 2023
UC San Diego Health has once again been recognized as a High Performing Hospital for Obstetric and Infant Care by U.S. News & World Report.
October 2, 2023
UC San Diego Human Milk Institute names Mitra Hooshmand, PhD, as its Executive Director. Hooshman will lead strategy and operations at the innovative research institute.
May 16, 2019
In its first-ever assessment of biomedical institutions around the world, based upon published research in a targeted set of high-quality scientific journals, the 2019 Nature Index ranked University of California San Diego ninth among the top 200 institutions in biomedical sciences worldwide.
March 10, 2016
…ways to detect primary breast cancer and early stage Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It provides researchers and institutions with services such as trial design, data analysis and training, with doctoral and community outreach programs in bioinformatics, clinical psychology, communicative disorders and more. The new building exemplifies growth of clinical and translational…
October 10, 2014
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have been awarded a $9.2 million grant to help modernize and transform how researchers share, use, find and cite biomedical datasets.
May 14, 2015
…with high-blood pressure, colon cancer and breast cancer. Just as troubling for the future of America’s health: More than two thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children and youth are overweight or obese. “These devastating health problems have persisted for decades, strained U.S. health care costs and focused the…
December 3, 2017
Two full-time University of California San Diego faculty members — Don Cleveland, who studies fundamental cellular mechanisms in the search for new treatments for diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and James McKernan, a mathematician who investigates algebraic geometry and multivariate polynomials — are recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize,…
