June 10, 2021
…make technological advancements in healthcare that would improve human lives. To do so, he had to find an engineer to collaborate with, since physicians and engineers were largely siloed professions at the time. Peter Farrell, founder of sleep-disordered breathing medical device company ResMed, experienced something similar when completing his bioengineering…
August 22, 2023
Among the many new faces on University of California San Diego’s campus this fall will be 17 eager community college graduates with the goal of becoming doctors someday. These students are all participants in the state-funded California Medicine Scholars Program (CMSP).
June 1, 2022
Researchers at UC San Diego have received a $25.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging to continue the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging, a 12-year assessment of cognitive and brain aging and impairment among aging Latinos.
August 2, 2022
Researchers report that a gene therapy approach, developed at UC San Diego measurably delayed disease onset in humanized mouse and rat models of familial ALS, an inherited form of the disease that runs in families.
December 2, 2021
…San Diego bioengineer advances equity in science, and among scientists As a heart fails, a woman’s ventricular wall increases in thickness relative to a man’s. And in heart valve disease, men show more calcified tissue growth, while women develop more fibrotic, scar-like tissue. Yet, treatments for both diseases remain strikingly…
November 2, 2021
Corinne Peek-Asa has been appointed as UC San Diego’s new Vice Chancellor for Research, effective January 1, 2022.
September 26, 2022
Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla discusses the Campaign for UC San Diego and shares what’s next for this visionary leader.
June 21, 2022
COVID-19 rebound following Paxlovid treatment likely due to insufficient drug exposure, UC San Diego researchers find after showing rebound patient did not show drug resistance or impaired immunity.
June 1, 2020
Dr. Cheryl Anderson, professor and interim chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Diego, has been named founding dean of The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.
June 12, 2014
…(Program in Medical Education-Health Equity) program at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, specializing in general surgery. Okoroh, who grew up in Nigeria, would like to improve the quality of healthcare for marginalized people around the globe, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to arriving at UC San Diego,…
