May 18, 2017
…(CML). Prior to the drug’s development, the five-year survival rate for CML patients was around 30 percent; now the ten-year survival rate is around 80 percent. Druker has received the Warren Alpert Prize from Harvard Medical School and the Japan Prize in Healthcare and Medical Technology. He is a member…
April 17, 2012
…is like an addictive drug in that you simply can't get enough of it. How did you get interested in memory research? Wixted: It was a pretty convoluted route. I was an undergraduate at UC San Diego (circa 1980), not knowing what I really wanted to do with my life.…
October 10, 2013
…be a useful anti-cancer drug. The patent from that discovery has since generated about $60 million in revenue for the University of California and the inventors. Another of our professors, Donald Helinski, did basic research on an enzyme in fireflies called luciferase, which is now used widely in laboratories as…
October 7, 2021
…are just a few generations removed from a time when polio outbreaks were common and often devastating. In the 1952 epidemic, for example, 57,628 cases were reported, 3,145 persons died and 21,269 persons were left with mild to disabling paralysis. The introduction of polio vaccines in the late-50s and early-60s…
September 7, 2011
Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to commercialize their ideas for new, lower cost health care technologies that will address a long-standing need for more affordable and efficient chronic disease management and…
July 9, 2024
Drawing from the expertise of the UC San Diego community, UC San Diego Today presents a list of seven ways that heat impacts health. Through collaboration and innovation, these insights can help pave the way for a healthier future for all.
November 3, 2016
…a moonshot for this generation of roboticists, Christensen said. Christensen’s ideal home care robot should function both as a walker and a wheelchair. It should be equipped with arms, be able to fetch medications and even prepare a meal. To reach this goal, robots will need to have a better…
September 17, 2020
…the United States, that’s generally October to May, with peak activity December through February. After early hopes that the novel coronavirus might burn itself out in the summer heat, SARS-CoV-2 now appears more likely to be a year-round phenomenon. “Many factors influence the prevalence of viruses,” said Pascal Gagneux, professor…
February 7, 2023
UC San Diego Health’s Center for Transplantation is among the nation’s best in lung, heart, kidney and liver programs, powered by long experience and deep expertise.
January 7, 2016
…to mention business, in general. Cocoon Cam Rubi Sanchez, Co-Founder and CEO of Wearless Tech Inc., developer of Cocoon Cam. Photo by Eugene Borodin/QB3 Competition presenter: Rubi Sanchez, Co-founder/CEO, Wearless Tech Inc. Sanchez received a B.A. from UC Berkeley and was a fellow at the Stanford University Graduate School of…
