August 19, 2019
…Viterbi Family Vision Research Center, and create six new endowed chairs for faculty. His generous support is dedicated to advancing research, education and eye care. The Viterbi Family Vision Research Center will house research for a number of different ophthalmological diseases and interdisciplinary ophthalmological research. Students: Chancellor Associates Scholarships The…
November 9, 2023
In honor of Veterans Day, Nov. 11, UC San Diego Today asked members of the campus community to tell us about the U.S. military service members and veterans in their lives and share messages of gratitude for their contributions to their nation.
October 13, 2016
…support the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center at UC San Diego Health, The Preuss School UCSD, Rady School of Management and the Farrell Fund in cardiology. Recently, the Peter C. Farrell Sleep Center of Excellence and Peter C. Farrell Presidential Chair in Pulmonary Medicine were both named in Farrell’s honor and in…
February 4, 2016
…founding director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “We’ve dedicated every waking moment of our lives for 50 years to doing things that are beneficial for folks. How do you just drop that?” At 74, Fenical is still is a full-time professor and…
February 2, 2023
From pandemics to health inequities, confronting future crises will look different — and that’s a good thing.
January 7, 2016
…and director of the Center for Excellence in Nanomedicine What’s the biggest challenge in health care today? “Patient adherence to taking medication,” says Almutairi. People usually don’t remember or want to take a pill every day, and that’s a big hurdle to researchers like Almutairi, who want to make new…
January 24, 2023
The gut microbiome plays a critical but poorly understood role in how drugs work or don’t work in the body. It also presents therapeutic possibilities unto itself.
November 3, 2022
World leaders, climate experts and policymakers from nearly 200 counties are preparing to descend upon the seaside city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for a United Nations climate conference that kicks off next week.
May 15, 2014
…Cambridge University, and His Excellency Archbishop Roland Minnerath, Archbishop of Dijon, France. Pope Francis with members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Image courtesy of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences The joint statement of the two academies calls for the pursuit of…
