Pimple Secret Popped: How Fat Cells in the Skin Help Fight Acne
February 16, 2022
UC San Diego researchers discover a specific antimicrobial skin cell and the role it plays in acne development, which could result in more targeted treatment options.
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Joint Resolution: A Link Between Huntington’s Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis
May 15, 2018
Using new analytic tools, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have decoded the epigenetic landscape for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a common autoimmune disease that affects more than 1.3 million Americans.
Teen Mentored by UC San Diego Professors Wins $250,000 in Science Prizes
May 6, 2014
…supercomputer modeling with experimental research to speed up the discovery of influenza virus inhibitors.
UC San Diego’s Strategic Plans, Part 1
November 15, 2011
…Health Sciences faculty identified drug discovery/drug design, computational chemistry/systems biology and bioengineering/biomedical research as areas with opportunities to be the best. “We recognize that the collaboration with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the general campus will present incredible opportunities to be the best in a few selected areas. For example,…
NIH Helps UC San Diego Researchers Repurpose Sanofi Pain Drug for Tropical Disease
July 27, 2015
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded James McKerrow, MD, PhD, dean of the University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, with a 2015 New Therapeutic Uses Award.
New Method Allows Scientists to Screen Natural Products for Antibiotics
December 8, 2015
Biologists at UC San Diego have found that a method they developed to identify and characterize new antibiotics can be employed to screen natural products quickly for compounds capable of controlling antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Building Mini-Brains to Study Disorders Caused by HIV and Meth Use
February 10, 2015
…Award for HIV/AIDS Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
‘Neuron-reading’ Nanowires Could Accelerate Development of Drugs to Treat Neurological Diseases
April 11, 2017
…could one day serve as a platform to screen drugs for neurological diseases and could enable researchers to better understand how single cells communicate in large neuronal networks.
Aversion to Risk by R&D Managers May Hurt U.S. Economic Prospects
March 16, 2020
Research and Development (R&D) has long been key in the U.S.’s economic prospects and according to new research from the University of California San Diego, the country’s ability to maintain its competitive edge in this area largely depends on managers in R&D being less averse to risk.
SDSC Graduate Student Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
March 27, 2012
A graduate student working in the Walker Molecular Dynamics laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is a recipient of the 2012-2013 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program award for his innovative molecular dynamics research using GPU (graphics processing unit) computing.
