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…
February 6, 2024
Moores Cancer Center continues to bring state-of-the-art cancer treatments from the bench to the bedside.
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.
December 11, 2017
…to fight infections and cancer. They uncovered a novel function for a protein known as “Runx3” that is key to the development of killer T cells—immune cells important for fighting infections and cancer. The researchers believe Runx3, if properly directed, could be combined with other approaches to help T cells…
January 19, 2023
UC San Diego researchers describe how pancreatic cancer stem cells leverage a protein in a family of proteins that normally suppress tumors to instead do the opposite, boosting their resistance to conventional treatments and spurring growth.
September 21, 2020
Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is using advanced imaging, genomics, personalized medicine and new therapies to treat patients like Brian McCloskey, who has stage IV prostate cancer.
November 1, 2016
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic provide the first evidence that the Hedgehog signaling pathway is central to the formation of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), which are frequently driven by the KIT oncogene.
November 14, 2017
Primary liver cancer is now the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and its incidences and mortality are increasing rapidly in the United Stated. In late stages of the malignancy, there are no effective treatments or drugs. However, an unexpected finding made by a team of University of California…
March 11, 2020
From a simple blood draw, microbial DNA may reveal who has cancer and which type, even at early stages.
