A Step Up
September 26, 2022
The world’s first biodegradable shoe is from UC San Diego.
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UC San Diego Set to Announce $20 Million for Atmospheric Research Program
September 9, 2013
…and sea alter the chemistry of the atmosphere to influence climate. Khosla will appear with UC San Diego chemistry and biochemistry professors Kimberly Prather and Mario Molina, a 1995 Nobel laureate, at a noon news conference at the Birch Aquarium at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant…
52 UC San Diego Researchers Are Named Highly Cited in 2020 Listing
November 23, 2020
52 faculty members and researchers at UC San Diego are among the world’s most influential in their fields, according to the Web of Science Group.
UC San Diego Receives $7 Million from DOD for Innovative Neural Research
May 24, 2012
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at UC San Diego composed of physicists, biologists, chemists, bioengineers and psychologists has received a five-year, $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the dynamic principles of collective brain activity.
A New Gene-Editing System Tackles Complex Diseases
May 21, 2024
…at once. Their work, led by Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Alexis Komor’s lab, appears in Nature Biotechnology.
Under Pressure: How Comb Jellies Have Adapted to Life at the Bottom of the Ocean
June 27, 2024
UC San Diego Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Itay Budin teamed up with researchers from around the country to study the cell membranes of ctenophores (“comb jellies”) and found they had unique lipid structures that allow them to live under intense pressure.
UC San Diego New Guggenheim Fellows Shine Excellence
May 2, 2019
…from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Music and Electrical and Computer Engineering are among the 168 scholars, artists and writers chosen for fellowships in the U.S. and Canada by the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Their prior achievements and exceptional promise in their respective fields…
Good Vibrations: Using Light-Heated Water to Deliver Drugs
April 1, 2014
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, in collaboration with materials scientists, engineers and neurobiologists, have discovered a new mechanism for using light to activate drug-delivering nanoparticles and other targeted therapeutic substances inside the body.
2 UC San Diego Scientists Receive Prestigious New Innovator Awards from NIH
September 20, 2011
Two scientists at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health for research projects “that challenge the status quo with innovative ideas that have the potential to propel fields forward and speed the translation of research into improved health for…
UC San Diego’s Graduate Programs Ranked Among Best in Nation by U.S. News & World Report
April 25, 2023
The U.S. News & World Report 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings named nine of UC San Diego’s graduate programs among the top 10 in the nation.
