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Accessible and Affordable Care at Heart of Healthcare Technology Grants

September 7, 2011

Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to commercialize their ideas for new, lower cost health care technologies that will address a long-standing need for more affordable and efficient chronic disease management and…

Class of 2021 Shining Stars

June 10, 2021

…fellow in Taran Gujral’s lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. She is continuing to build on her graduate work, studying the cellular and molecular processes that contribute to cancer progression in a translation setting.

UC San Diego Health Welcomes New Hospital to Network of Care

October 10, 2023

The Regents of University of California approved UC San Diego Health to purchase Alvarado Hospital Medical Center, a 302-bed acute care hospital in San Diego.

National Clinical Trial Launches, Will Test Promising Vaccine Against Novel Coronavirus

July 24, 2020

UC San Diego Health and the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute will be sites for an accelerated national clinical trial to assess the efficacy and immunogenicity of a vaccine intended to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Study: Potential New Treatment Identified for Liver Disease

June 26, 2023

Researchers with UC San Diego School of Medicine identified a potential new drug that improved liver fibrosis in patients with NASH by 27%.

UC San Diego Health Receives Highest Award for Obstetric, Infant Care

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.

Scientists Uncover Strong Support for Once-Marginalized Theory on Parkinson’s Disease

April 25, 2012

University of California, San Diego scientists have used powerful computational tools and laboratory tests to discover new support for a once-marginalized theory about the underlying cause of Parkinson’s disease.

Diverse Applicants Awaken Their Inner Storyteller

December 1, 2022

Dozens of local high school students from across San Diego County took part in UC Insights, a program developed by the Raza Resource Centro to help distill their diverse stories into compelling personal insight questions (PIQs) for the University of California (UC) application.

Living Life on the Nanoscale

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…

Center for Health Innovation Expands with $22 Million in Gifts

February 8, 2023

With a generous $22 million in gifts from Joan and Irwin Jacobs, UC San Diego Health will bring its Center for Health Innovation into full reality.

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