March 26, 2014
Napoleone Ferrara, MD, distinguished professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and senior deputy director for basic sciences at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, was named today among eight recipients of the Canada Gairdner Awards at a ceremony in Toronto.
October 26, 2021
University of California San Diego researchers describe how a pair of fundamental genetic and cellular processes — aneuploidy and unfolded protein response — are exploited by cancer cells to promote tumor survival and growth.
April 22, 2019
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that treating patients with personalized precision medicine that combined therapies to target multiple alterations improved outcomes in patients with therapy resistant cancers.
April 17, 2024
A University of California San Diego current graduate student in the Department of Theatre and Dance and an undergraduate alumna from the Department of Bioengineering are are among 30 recipients of the 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
July 23, 2020
Cancer Isn’t Taking a Timeout for COVID-19; Neither are Clinical Trials Before the COVID-19 pandemic, physician-scientists Drs. Ezra Cohen, Catriona Jamieson, Dan Kaufman and Stephen Schoenberger discussed one of 195 cancer therapeutic clinical trials available at UC San Diego Health. These life-saving studies continue to be offered. With additional safety…
December 8, 2022
UC San Diego’s ranks now include 18 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Three professors have been named 2022 NAI fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
February 19, 2020
UC San Diego bioengineers developed a control system that could make CAR T-cell therapy safer and more powerful when treating cancer. By programming CAR T cells to switch on when exposed to blue light, the researchers controlled the cells to destroy skin tumors in mice without harming healthy tissue
September 30, 2014
More than 600 health care and construction workers donned pink hard hats while forming a giant human ribbon at the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center construction site today in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness month.
May 13, 2021
…Diego’s Head and Neck Cancer Center Hanna and Mark Gleiberman have embraced philanthropic endeavors supporting UC San Diego and the San Diego community. Most recently, the couple has made a $12 million gift to support the newly named Hanna and Mark Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center at UC San…
March 7, 2017
Honjo received the 2016 Kyoto Prize—Japan’s highest private award for global achievement—in the area of “Basic Sciences” for his contributions to medical science. His work has been described as initiating a historic turning point—a “penicillin moment”—in the fight against cancer.
