March 15, 2012
The number of continuing education students entering certificate programs at University of California San Diego Extension increased 19 percent last year, according to Elizabeth Silva, registrar and director of student services for the university’s continuing education programs.
January 18, 2012
…spectrum liver care, from diagnostics and testing to novel therapies and clinical trials not found anywhere else in the United States. The CHAT team includes: Dr. Robert Gish, Dr. Alan Hemming, Dr. Ajai Khanna, Dr. Yuko Kono, Dr. Alexander Kuo, Dr. Rohit Loomba, Dr. Kristin Mekeel, Dr. Michel Mendler, Dr.…
December 3, 2021
On Saturday, Dec. 4, a total eclipse of the sun will occur at 07:33 (Universal Time) over Antarctica and parts of the South Pacific near the southern tip of Chile. The solar corona – visible to the naked eye only during a total eclipse – will be viewable for just…
December 1, 2020
A team of SDSC researchers recently created a pharmacophore model and conducted data mining of the database of drugs approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to find potential inhibitors of papain-like protease of SARS-CoV2, one of the main viral proteins responsible for COVID-19
May 5, 2022
…it difficult to get diagnostic or therapeutic particles into the brain. Rebecca Kandell, a bioengineering PhD student in Kwon’s lab, is also a Sloan Scholar. To overcome the challenge of bypassing the blood-brain barrier, Kwon’s lab is taking advantage of a recent insight from the realm of cancer research. “Nanomedicine…
August 24, 2011
Patients in Nevada seeking care for liver disease may now access the university-level expertise of UC San Diego Health System’s Center for Hepatobiliary Disease and Abdominal Transplantation (CHAT).
September 23, 2012
Biologists at UC San Diego have unraveled the anti-viral mechanism of a human gene that may explain why some people infected with HIV have much higher amounts of virus in their bloodstreams than others. Their finding could shed light on the mystery of why some people with HIV never develop…
September 21, 2011
For the first time ever, a surgical team led by Alan Hemming, MD, has successfully performed a domino transplant using a liver with a rare genetic disorder called methylmalonic acidemia (MMA).
October 22, 2012
While the search for a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece by UC San Diego’s Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) is temporarily on hold pending the outcome of forthcoming elections in Italy, project leader and alumnus Maurizio Seracini (Class of ’73) played host to royalty when Queen…
November 20, 2018
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine with colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and UC San Francisco report finding infectious agent in the eyes of deceased sCJD patients, making the eye a potential source for early CJD detection and prevention of disease.
