February 27, 2020
…to prevent necrosis in diabetic patients and ulcers in paraplegics. With a shared passion for what Jérémie Palacci, an assistant professor in the UC San Diego Department of Physics, calls “the science of squishy things,” he and Colin are working on a project to apply her research results to materials…
May 17, 2018
…and show whether they carry any of the cancer biomarkers we are looking for.” Lewis worked on this project as part of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between nanotechnology researchers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and clinicians at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health. The collaboration…
February 11, 2021
…but also autoimmune diseases, diabetes and cancer. Yet, remarkably, we still don’t fully understand the composition of breast milk, or the biological basis for its many health effects. In fact, more scientific papers have been published on headaches than breastfeeding, and more federal research dollars from Canadian Institutes of Health…
March 31, 2016
…poor access to health care. His desire to help such communities inspired Prabhu to study medicine and spearhead an initiative that aims to save the lives of thousands of women who give birth outside institutional settings and often die en route to a clinic due to excessive blood loss. The…
June 6, 2019
…therapies for leukemia and diabetes, for example. An episode on blood stem cells is Muotri’s favorite so far. “We went to David Traver’s lab in the Division of Biological Sciences to see how blood cells are formed in zebrafish, then talked to Catriona Jamieson about how that information forms the…
July 9, 2024
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s NSF-funded Southern California Extreme Heat Research Hub brings together an interdisciplinary team of UC San Diego scientists—from climatologists to epidemiologists—to study extreme heat impacts and mitigation strategies.
May 25, 2017
…campus’s inclusions efforts. Daniel Cardenas, student program coordinator at the UC San Diego Raza Resource Centro, discussed how he addresses student identity concerns. He often suggests reflecting on history when thinking about ideas of normalcy. For instance, how was the notion of gender conceived of among indigenous people? Thinking critically…
April 9, 2020
…routinely by persons with diabetes. Only a couple of drops of blood will be drawn. The team will store the donated blood samples for future studies. For example, the samples may be used to determine who has already been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and has developed immunity in the form of…
October 18, 2011
…cure for Type 1 diabetes. As part of its yearlong 50th Anniversary celebration, the university launched Volunteer50: Chancellor’s Call to Service. More than 3,300 members of the UC San Diego community donated over 62,000 hours of service, contributing roughly $1.5 million in free labor. The campus was recognized by the…
April 4, 2023
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a biodegradable polymer system to treat rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune and inflammatory disease, by working in concert with the power of the human immune system.
