May 16, 2013
…Center for Brain Activity Mapping Responding to President Barack Obama’s “grand challenge” to chart the function of the human brain in unprecedented detail, the University of California, San Diego has established the Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM). The new center, under the aegis of the interdisciplinary Kavli Institute for…
November 1, 2012
…to peer inside living cells or whole animals, to observe interactive biology in real time and to ask and do things previously deemed impossible. Tsien could have stopped there, of course, content to rest upon his Nobel laurels, but he wanted to do something clinically relevant with his research. And…
September 19, 2023
Five UC San Diego graduate students working at the intersection of engineering and medicine have been selected as 2024 Siebel Scholars.
October 10, 2011
A newly developed method for microscopically extracting, or “mining,” information from genomes could represent a significant boost in the search for new therapeutic drugs and improve science’s understanding of basic functions such as how cells communicate with one another.
March 12, 2019
U.S. News & World Report today released its 2020 guidebook that ranks the nation’s top graduate programs and professional schools, giving high marks to UC San Diego’s innovative programs.
November 24, 2014
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the United States, has awarded the distinction of Fellow to three UC San Diego professors.
March 14, 2011
…include Systems Biology, Virology, Single-Cell Imaging and Computational Modeling. Specifically, his lab studies the regulatory ‘master circuits’ controlling the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and human herpesviruses. More… Gene Yeo Gene Yeo is an assistant professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. His research is focused on the roles…
September 7, 2016
When 28 distinguished individuals convened earlier this year to help shape the scientific mission at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of Vice President Joe Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, they were given five months to draft guidelines to accelerate cancer research, prevention and care. On Wednesday, the National Cancer Advisory…
December 14, 2016
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new non-invasive method to detect infections in prostheses used for amputees, as well as for knee, hip and other joint replacements. The method, which is at the proof of concept stage, consists of a simple imaging technique and an…
November 5, 2019
Limitless: The Qualcomm Institute’s Albert Lin has launched a new project to help the world’s 40 mission amputees who live without access to a prosthesis.
