September 23, 2021
Five graduate students working at the interface of engineering and medicine have been honored as 2022 Siebel Scholars. They are pursuing graduate degrees in bioengineering, electrical engineering, nanoengineering, and bioinformatics, all with a focus on advancing human health. Five graduate student
July 9, 2018
A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a chip that can detect a type of genetic mutation known as a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and wirelessly send the results in real time to an electronic device. The chip is at least 1,000 times more sensitive…
April 26, 2018
A Drug Lord and the World’s Largest Invasive Animal Zoo built by ‘Cocaine King’ Pablo Escobar gives UC San Diego biologists rare chance to study ecological impact of hippos gone rogue At his infamous zenith in the 1990s, Pablo Escobar’s drug-fueled empire—a vast underworld syndicate built upon the United States’…
May 28, 2020
…diseases are transmitted, then uses the models to evaluate and predict the effects of various public health interventions and other variables. Most recently, she has applied her talents to tracking and forecasting potential COVID-19 transmission on campus, as leader of the UC San Diego Return to Learn Program. Before COVID-19,…
May 22, 2023
UC San Diego scientists develop an interactive software that enables scientists to better investigate the DNA damage response.
April 16, 2015
…risks, particularly with the use of HIV drugs. “We’re comfortable with encouraging breastfeeding largely due to the advent of antiretroviral drugs,” said Dr. Mitch Besser, a former UC San Diego professor and founder of mothers2mothers, a South Africa-based nonprofit dedicated to ending pediatric AIDS. “If mothers and babies take the…
February 27, 2017
Researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego are running a Diabetes Intensive Medical Management (DIMM) “tune up” clinic for complex type 2 diabetes patients. In a study published in the March 2017 issue of the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, the…
October 18, 2022
Two early career researchers at the University of California San Diego have been named recipients of the 2022 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
September 5, 2023
With Innovation Day 2023 on the horizon, we are highlighting five UC San Diego Tritons who are harnessing their diverse perspectives to pioneer change that shapes a better future for all.
October 6, 2021
In a special issue of Nature, UC San Diego researchers further refine the organization of cells within key regions of the mouse brain and the organization of transcriptomic, epigenomic and regulatory factors that provide these brain cells with function and purpose.
