November 29, 2011
…facilities – in the heart of UC San Diego’s booming life sciences research and teaching campus – strategically positions UC San Diego Health System to further integrate patient care with research. It builds upon UC San Diego’s legacy of bench-to-bedside collaboration among scientists, clinical researchers, physicians and trainees. The addition…
March 1, 2013
World-renowned molecular cell biologist and 2012 Kyoto Prize laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi, Ph.D., will speak at the University of California, San Diego, March 13 at 3:30 p.m., as part of the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium. To register for the free talk, which is open to the public, please visit: kyotoprizeusa.com.
January 25, 2023
Working with mice, Salk Institute researchers, in collaboration with the University of California San Diego, have identified another factor contributing to diabetes-associated peripheral neuropathy: altered amino acid metabolism.
October 9, 2017
CIPRES, for CyberInfrastructure for Phylogenetic RESearch, is a web-based portal or “gateway” launched by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego that allows researchers to explore evolutionary connections among species. Over 20,000 users from 86 countries have run one or more jobs using CIPRES, generating about 3,500 peer-reviewed…
June 27, 2024
UC San Diego Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Itay Budin teamed up with researchers from around the country to study the cell membranes of ctenophores (“comb jellies”) and found they had unique lipid structures that allow them to live under intense pressure.
April 6, 2023
After decades of working in industry and academia, biophysicists Alex Savtchenko and Elena Molokanova still have big dreams.
March 14, 2016
Each year, at precisely the same moment, thousands of graduating medical school students across the country simultaneously tear open an envelope. Inside, there is a single sheet of paper and on it, a handful of words. Those words will inform each graduate where he or she will do their residencies,…
July 27, 2023
UC San Diego scientists debut Greengenes2, a massive reference database that could be used to reconcile years of microbiome studies.
February 15, 2018
…as complex as the diseases they treat. With each scientific discovery, there is more to know every year, said Jess Mandel, MD, professor of clinical medicine and former associate dean for undergraduate medical education at UC San Diego School of Medicine. The way medical care is delivered is more complex,…
December 16, 2022
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed an electronic patch that can monitor biomolecules in deep tissues, including hemoglobin.
