October 4, 2012
…disease genes involved in cancer, pandemic flu and Alzheirmer’s disease, plus many other genes. “We greatly appreciate that the W.M. Keck Foundation decided to fund this project, which will allow us to complete the synthesis and in vivo proof of concept studies. Success here with this core technology will fundamentally…
October 10, 2013
…the GI Bill, I carried that lesson with me. My specific interest in biological sciences was largely due to some professors at San Jose State and at NASA, where I worked in the summers, who sparked my interest in biology and those experiences eventually led me to graduate school at…
November 15, 2018
…students: organize your work carefully, and you may be able to “get by” with 60 to 70 hours of study a week. Students were drawn to the new UC San Diego campus for the chance to work with renowned faculty members, including Nobel Prize laureates (left to right) Renato Dulbecco,…
May 2, 2019
…prepares them for future careers as medical doctors, dentists, business or as faculty and researchers at other universities, biotechnology companies and private institutes. We provide the students not only with foundational knowledge of biological systems, but also with key skills in quantitative and qualitative reasoning, in experimental design and interpretation.…
November 6, 2014
…working across disciplines. Richard Carson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics China: Consumption, CO2, and Climate Change What initially sparked your curiosity about this area of study? I became interested in working on climate change back in the 1990’s when I was research director for International Environmental Policy at the University…
August 22, 2013
…He made a successful career as a real estate developer and property manager in San Diego for the past 40 years with a focus on affordable housing. Providing the most significant gifts in the history of UC San Diego’s music program, Prebys gave $6 million to build the Conrad Prebys…
November 4, 2013
…prevent, myriad afflictions, including cancer, Lou Gehrig’s disease and spinal cord injury. I see it in the amazing collaborative advances by researchers and doctors in the Consortium and across the La Jolla mesa,” said Sanford. “I believe we’re on the cusp of turning years of hard-earned knowledge into actual treatments…
January 16, 2020
…delivering medicine directly to cancer cells. Despite nanotechnology’s promising future, most California schools lack a science curriculum that engages students with life and technology on the nanoscale. Opportunities like that of Horowitz’s class, in which young students can study the arrow-like shape of a shark’s scale, and understand how its…
March 20, 2012
…detect very early stage cancer, designing smarter systems for managing infrastructure, maintaining the safety of prescription drugs in the era of Internet pharmacies and looking at how climate change affects animal and plant life in California. They shared research that could expand our understanding of how human languages are structured,…
September 1, 2022
…Landscape of COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease.” Daniel conducted his research under the mentorship of Weg M. Ongkeko, M.D., Ph.D., associate adjunct professor at the Department of Surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Daniel’s research involved working with biomarkers and immune responses in the Ongkeko Lab. While normally focused…
