Addressing the Diversity Gap in Health Care
February 7, 2024
According to experts, there is a disparity between the diversity of health care staff and the patients served.
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UC San Diego Ranks 9th in the World for Most Influential Researchers
November 26, 2024
UC San Diego has the highest number of influential voices in the University of California system and tied for 9th highest among universities and institutes worldwide, according to Clarivate’s 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list.
Obituary Notice—Charles Cox: Esteemed Scripps Professor of Oceanography
December 4, 2015
…Diego, passed away on Nov. 30, 2015. Cox conducted research on oceanic electromagnetic fields and the exploration of small-scale ocean structures, including measuring fine-scale fluctuations in temperature and salinity within ocean waters to understand the intensity of ocean turbulence.
Crowdsourcing the Transformation of Mass Spectrometry Big Data into Scientific Living Data
August 9, 2016
A team of 127 co-authors led by UC San Diego faculty from computer science and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy report in Nature Biotechnology on the successful rollout of Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) that lets scientists share mass spectrometry data worldwide to speed the search for potentially…
Aspirin, Take Two
August 18, 2014
…early edition of PNAS, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine conclude that aspirin has a second effect: Not only does it kill cyclooxygenase, thus preventing production of the prostaglandins that cause inflammation and pain, it also prompts the enzyme to generate another compound that hastens…
Mental Health is a Casualty of War
December 7, 2017
…the drive to pursue research and training to help those suffering from mental illnesses, especially from war trauma in less developed countries,” he said. Armed with this new charge, he refocused his epidemiology work on the epidemic of mental illness spreading throughout displaced populations around the globe. Al-Delaimy began locally,…
Coalition: 100 Companies, Including 2 from UC San Diego, Prove Economic Boost of Research
October 29, 2013
Two innovative UC San Diego spinoffs are among the 100 companies cited by The Science Coalition in a new report touting the positive economic payoff of federally funded university research.
Humanizing the Research Enterprise
March 19, 2015
…Diego Publications Humanizing the Research Enterprise UC San Diego & You, a new faculty symposium series, brings research to life at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley When you walk into a building at Google, there comes the realization: behind each of their many tools, there are real people—in offices, at…
Sugar-Coating Disguise Allows for Coronavirus Infection
June 18, 2020
…San Diego colleagues and researchers from Maynooth University in Dublin, Ireland, led by Elisa Fadda—has uncovered the atomic makeup of the coronavirus's sugary cloak. The simulation and modeling reveal that glycans also prime the coronavirus for infection by changing the shape of its spike protein. Scientists hope this basic research…
Still Connected After all These Years
February 4, 2016
…full-time professor and still researching drugs from the sea, including compounds that look very promising to fight melanoma, multiple myeloma as well as breast and ovarian cancer. Many of us cannot picture ourselves working for the same organization for decades. But a growing number of UC San Diego academics have…
