February 28, 2019
February 28, 2019 —
Pharmaceutical leader Cam Garner and his wife Wanda, a cancer workshop facilitator and philanthropic fundraiser, recently gave $2 million to establish the Garner Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Blood and Marrow Transplant at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
September 3, 2021
September 3, 2021 —
After experiencing a medical emergency, Don Cohn is giving back to the department that he credits with saving his life.
May 30, 2022
May 30, 2022 —
UC San Diego researchers discover mechanism linking breast cancer and diabetes, each of which promotes development and growth of the other.
January 23, 2020
January 23, 2020 —
…As a professor of clinical medicine, she’s interested in understanding and treating infectious diseases with global health implications—conditions such as HIV and tuberculosis. For many Americans, “tuberculosis” might sound like something out of a Jane Austen novel; but to think that tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease from a bygone…
March 14, 2019
March 14, 2019 —
A new paper by UC San Diego researchers hypothesizes a possible link between cancer-causing viruses.
October 27, 2021
October 27, 2021 —
A new $9 million grant from Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) will enable advancement of UC San Diego’s discovery that inhibiting a single gene in mice converts other cell types directly into new neurons, alleviating all Parkinson’s symptoms.
October 21, 2020
October 21, 2020 —
San Diego-based Cellics Therapeutics, which was co-founded by UC San Diego nanoengineering Professor Liangfang Zhang, has received an award of up to $15M to develop a macrophage cellular nanosponge—nanoparticles cloaked in the cell membranes of macrophages—designed to treat sepsis.
October 16, 2024
October 16, 2024 —
According to new research from UC San Diego School of Medicine, men and women rely on different biological systems for pain relief, which could help explain why our most powerful pain medications are often less effective in women. Photo credit: iStock/peterschreibermedia
June 27, 2013
June 27, 2013 —
Jacobs School of Engineering professors Karen Christman and Gert Lanckriet are among 81 of the nation’s most “creative young engineers” selected to attend this year’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium by the National Academy of Engineering.
June 24, 2020
June 24, 2020 —
UC San Diego researchers have discovered that a single treatment to inhibit a gene called PTB in mice converts native astrocytes, brain support cells, into neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. As a result, the mice’s Parkinson’s disease symptoms disappear.