February 27, 2023
Two engineers from the University of California San Diego have been elected Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), in recognition of their efforts to improve human health through engineering.
July 20, 2018
…therapies for a rare genetic disorder that affects the heart and a chronic, progressive affliction of the lungs.
August 26, 2019
An international team of researchers received a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to discover new and better ways to treat a pediatric congenital heart condition known as tetralogy of Fallot, which affects a total of 85,000 individuals in the US.
March 18, 2020
New study finds gene therapy improved cardiac, muscle and liver function in Danon disease mouse models.
August 16, 2023
American Heart Association honors UC San Diego Health with multiple awards for its commitment to treating patients with heart disease and stroke.
October 10, 2013
Putting Their Heart Into It Bioengineers team with high school students to study age-related heart disease as part of STEM outreach program UC San Diego bioengineering professor Adam Engler talks to 11th grade biology students at High Tech High School in Point Loma. Bioengineering professor Adam Engler needed to answer…
September 18, 2014
UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (SCVC) has been named among “100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs” by Becker’s Hospital Review, a business and legal news publication for hospital and health system leadership.
May 7, 2020
…San Diego Nurses Pour Hearts into Caring for Patients with COVID-19 Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have worked around the clock to care for patients suffering from the effects of this new virus. Nurses, such as Stephanie Lichtwardt, have become like a second family to…
July 27, 2015
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded James McKerrow, MD, PhD, dean of the University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, with a 2015 New Therapeutic Uses Award.
April 30, 2014
When Brayden Burge was 15 months old, his parents noticed a significant drop in his skills and a sudden increase in illness. Brayden was taken to the University of California, San Diego Health System and diagnosed with mitochondrial disease.
