October 29, 2024
UC San Diego will honor five individuals as recipients of the 2024 Revelle Medal, a prestigious award recognizing sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to campus. The 2024 Revelle Medal recipients are: Fan Chung Graham, Stephan Haggard, Douglas Richman, M.D., Robert Schooley, M.D. and Jan B. Talbot.
March 4, 2013
Building on earlier pioneering work by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, an international consortium of university researchers has produced the most comprehensive virtual reconstruction of human metabolism to date. Scientists could use the model, known as Recon 2, to identify causes of and new treatments for diseases…
December 15, 2011
Solidifying UC San Diego’s role as a research powerhouse with an entrepreneurial culture and collaborative environment, the Triton Greenovation Network (TGN) Challenge concluded its inaugural competition after announcing that students from the Rady School placed first and third in its competition to find the most commercially viable projects with a…
February 11, 2015
To better understand these cellular changes and how they influence the progression and severity of glaucoma, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute turned to a mouse model of the disease. Their study, published Feb. 10 in The Journal of Neuroscience, reveals how…
January 11, 2018
…used whole genome analyses and chemogenetics to identify new drug targets and resistance genes in 262 parasite cell lines of Plasmodium falciparum — protozoan pathogens that cause malaria — that are resistant to 37 diverse antimalarial compounds.
February 6, 2024
Moores Cancer Center continues to bring state-of-the-art cancer treatments from the bench to the bedside.
November 4, 2013
…Diego-based effort will speed discoveries to new drugs and treatments for patients In a bold and singular step toward delivering the therapeutic promise of human stem cells, businessman and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford has committed $100 million to the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at the University…
August 10, 2017
…and test strategies to inhibit the condition using existing drugs.
June 10, 2015
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences report that the common antibiotic azithromycin kills many multidrug-resistant bacteria very effectively — when tested under conditions that closely resemble the human body and its natural antimicrobial factors. The researchers believe the…
July 9, 2018
UC San Diego has selected Kit Pogliano, a professor of molecular biology, as its new dean for the Division of Biological Sciences. Pogliano was selected after a national search and will begin her new appointment on Sept. 15, 2018. She is the fourth dean of the division and its first…
