How an Entrepreneurial Engineering Education Nurtured a Biotech Startup
March 10, 2014
…make chemotherapy more effective and less toxic to the healthy tissue in the body.
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Gulf War Illness Not in Veterans’ Heads, But in Their Mitochondria
March 27, 2014
Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated for the first time that veterans of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War who suffer from “Gulf War illness” have impaired function of mitochondria – the energy powerhouses of cells.
SDSC Establishes Data Science Workflows ‘Center of Excellence’
April 3, 2014
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has formally established a new ‘center of excellence’ to assist researchers in creating workflows to better manage the tremendous amount of data being generated across a wide range of scientific disciplines, from natural sciences to marketing research.
Cancer Avatars for Personalized Medicine
May 21, 2014
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have used computer simulations of cancer cells – cancer avatars – to identify drugs most likely to kill cancer cells isolated from patients’ brain tumors.
HIV Transmission Networks Mapped to Reduce Infection Rate
June 5, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have mapped the transmission network of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in San Diego. The mapping of HIV infections, which used genetic sequencing, allowed researchers to predictively model the likelihood of new HIV transmissions and identify persons at greatest risk…
App Paired with Sensor Measures Stress and Delivers Advice to Cope in Real Time
June 10, 2014
Computer scientists at Microsoft Research and the University of California, San Diego have developed a system that combines a mobile application and sensor to detect stress in parents and delivers research-based strategies to help decrease their stress during emotionally charged interactions with their children. The system was initially tested on…
UC San Diego Extension Releases ‘Hot Careers 2014’ Report: Computer Systems Analysts Tops List
July 11, 2014
As the economy continues to rebound in the aftermath of the Great Recession, job prospects for the most recent class of college graduates appear to be considerably brighter than in recent years, according to a new free report issued by UC San Diego Extension.
Acute Glaucoma Discovered to be an Inflammatory Disease
July 14, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Sun Yat-sen University in China have shown that acute glaucoma in mice is largely an inflammatory disease and that high pressure in the eye causes vision loss by setting in motion an inflammatory response similar to that evoked…
Feed Your Appetite at Dinner in the Library Sept. 12 with Julia Child Biographer
August 20, 2014
…Library’s collections and services, which support student and faculty research and teaching. The evening’s festivities will include dinner and cocktails, a silent auction, and a keynote talk from internationally recognized biographer Noël Riley Fitch on “Sharing Julia Child’s Appetite for Life.”
Thermo Fisher Scientific, UC San Diego Announce Duane Roth Innovation Grant
September 17, 2014
Thermo Fisher Scientific and the UC San Diego Office of Research Affairs have established the Duane Roth Innovation Grant, which provides scientific investigators at UC San Diego with a $50,000 annual funding opportunity for sponsored research that supports proof-of-concept and technology-applications studies.
