July 1, 2021
After a nationwide search, Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health.
October 29, 2020
…contact tracing. And the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will help transport students who need isolation housing as well as coordinate residential housing and worksite cleansing. If a staff or faculty member chooses to be tested with their own healthcare provider, it is incumbent upon the employee to inform the Center…
February 7, 2020
The Protein Data Bank archive has released a new Coronavirus protease structure following the recent coronavirus outbreak, an ongoing viral epidemic primarily affecting mainland China that now threatens to spread to other parts of the world.
September 3, 2020
…$4 million to fund emergency medicine. In addition, charitable gifts comprised $243 million of the private support, of which $140 million was directed to health sciences; $78 million to the general campus, including Chancellor’s initiatives; $15 million to marine sciences; and $10 million to student affairs. Pivotal support for outstanding…
July 18, 2024
The University of California Board of Regents has approved the creation of the new School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, a critical advance in UC San Diego’s long history of leading innovation and education in artificial intelligence, computing and data science.
April 26, 2016
While technological advances have made it easier to map our microbiomes and metabolomes, these studies typically take too long for that data to be medically useful. Researchers at the University of California San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation used the 2016 San Diego Fermentation Festival as a test case for…
June 30, 2021
Experts at UC San Diego are available to discuss wildfires, drought, and California climate across an array of topics, including climate science, technology, public health, and economics and policy.
July 5, 2011
Internationally renowned scientist and educator Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and 2010 recipient of the National Medal of Science, among many other honors and awards, has announced that she will step down as Chancellor in June 2012 to return to teaching and research as…
July 3, 2024
Researchers at University of California San Diego show that a molecule which shuttles damaging inflammatory cells into cancer tumors also shuttles inflammatory cells into lung tissue infected with COVID-19 — and that the molecule can be suppressed with a repurposed cancer drug. The work represents a new approach to preventing…
May 25, 2017
…being stationed in the emergency room at the Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego. “The military gave me a ton of experience and exposed me to different areas of medicine,” he said, “so I started thinking this is something I want to do.” He applied to UC San Diego…
