June 25, 2020
…the best quality of care during such unusual circumstances.” Some of those safety measures include staff, patients and visitors screened for COVID-19 symptoms upon arrival every day and everyone inside the hospital or clinic setting being required to wear masks. All patients admitted to the hospital also receive a COVID-19…
February 21, 2024
Innovations in the form of multi-scale sensors and devices, creation of humanoid avatars and the development of exceptionally realistic predictive models driven by AI can radically change our lifestyles and response to pathologies.
April 28, 2022
…to taking 7.6 million cars off the road. And, following a plant-based diet can decrease your personal emissions by up to 70%. Plus, following a mostly or entirely plant-based diet decreases your risk of many chronic illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes. Similarly, by increasing consumption…
January 16, 2020
…Kerr and the elephant care team began reviewing feeding plans for two soon-to-be born calves. “We found we don’t have a lot of data on the compounds of elephant breast milk to guide our decisions for this species, but with two calves imminent we would have an opportunity to produce…
January 6, 2023
UC San Diego researchers suggest that rising levels of manmade chemicals, accumulating in marine plankton, might be used to monitor the impact of human activity on ecosystem health and perhaps study links between ocean pollution and land-based rates of childhood and adult chronic illnesses.
December 7, 2017
…hassle for people with diabetes, especially when they have to pack their glucose monitoring kits around with them every time they leave the house. “Integrating blood glucose sensing into a smartphone would eliminate the need for patients to carry a separate device,” said Patrick Mercier, a professor of electrical and…
May 16, 2011
…grants, technology transfer, animal care and welfare, research ethics and postdoctoral scholars, among others. A professor and researcher herself, she knows firsthand both the rewards and challenges of UC San Diego's research enterprise. She was appointed to her position in December 2010, just after the university surpassed $1 billion in…
April 3, 2023
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a five-year, $15.45 million grant to the San Diego Center for AIDS Research at UC San Diego, renewing support that extends back to an original establishing grant in 1994 at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
September 3, 2020
…leap forward toward a point-of-care predictive tool for bacteremia risk,” said Gonzalez, PhD, senior author and assistant professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. “It also opens up lots of new basic biological questions about how our immune systems respond to…
October 18, 2018
…including providing effective health care for the underserved and healthy aging,” said David Brenner, MD, vice chancellor for UC San Diego Health Sciences. “As UC San Diego builds our vision for a healthier world, we are committed to leveraging all of our resources—across campus, across disciplines and across institutions—to fully…
