October 4, 2018
Engineers at UC San Diego used wearable off-the-shelf technology and machine learning to predict an individual’s blood pressure and provide personalized recommendations to lower it based on this data.
July 29, 2013
Waters Corporation announced today their sponsorship of a new, two-year, postdoctoral Clinical Chemistry Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Fellows will be trained in classical clinical chemistry, laboratory administration and research practices to prepare them for directorship positions at medical schools or hospital-based clinical chemistry…
March 14, 2016
The Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) at UC San Diego has named a key new team leader to help guide the organization in its mission to create an all-campus “innovation ecosystem” and energize the creation of campus startups.
November 15, 2012
…range of applications from monitoring premature babies in the ICU to monitoring brain signals for mind-reading applications that facilitate self-expression, education and productivity in society. Why do you do what you do? I like the idea of making what we thought was science fiction yesterday a reality tomorrow. I also…
July 22, 2015
Collaborative effort recognized for development of pH sensors for ocean acidification monitoring
November 4, 2021
…ways it influences our health. Smruthi Karthikeyan (left) and Rob Knight (right) pick up wastewater samples from collection robots on the UC San Diego campus. By the summer of 2020, Karthikeyan, Knight and team were sifting through fecal samples closer to home —sewage flushed away by people occupying UC San…
August 15, 2017
Using fragments of circulating tumor DNA in blood, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers were able to identify theoretically targetable genetic alterations in 66 percent of patients with cancer of unknown primary (CUP), a rare disease with seven to 12 cases per 100,000 people each year.
February 11, 2015
…and software designed to monitor a doctor’s office, particularly during consultations with patients. The goal is to analyze the physician’s behavior and better understand the dynamics of the interactions of the doctor with the electronic medical records and the patients in front of them. The eventual goal is to provide…
November 26, 2024
UC San Diego has the highest number of influential voices in the University of California system and tied for 9th highest among universities and institutes worldwide, according to Clarivate’s 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list.
October 25, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say that, while a prevailing theory suggests elevated cellular levels of glucose ultimately result in diabetic kidney disease, the truth may, in fact, be quite the opposite. The findings could fundamentally change understanding of how diabetes-related diseases develop –…
