June 7, 2016
Students and researchers at all stages of their academic careers went head-to-head recently, competing for $100k in prizes at the 10th annual UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge.
October 9, 2017
An international team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues at Sun Yet-sun University Cancer Center and other collaborating institutions, have developed a new diagnostic and prognosis method for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), based on a simple blood…
April 2, 2013
The University of California, San Diego is renaming its division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) in honor of the philanthropy of the San Diego-based wireless technology leader, Qualcomm Incorporated.
February 7, 2024
Rob Knight, a University of California San Diego professor and international leader in the study of the roles microbes play in human health and disease and the functioning of ecosystems, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
March 22, 2018
…campus, UC San Diego Health is undergoing expansions and enhancements to transform patient care for the campus and the region. Jacobs Medical Center, which opened in 2016, represents the epitome of what modern medicine has become at the nation’s top academic medical centers—advanced technologies supporting highly specialized care, delivered by…
August 8, 2019
The multiple sclerosis drug teriflunomide, paired with targeted cancer therapy, markedly shrinks patient-derived glioblastomas grown in mice by reaching stem cells at the tumor’s root, according to a new UC San Diego School of Medicine study published in Science Translational Medicine.
December 5, 2017
Using a database of multiple myeloma patient samples and information, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that high ADAR1 levels correlate with reduced survival rates. They also determined that blocking the enzyme reduces multiple myeloma regeneration in experimental models derived from patient cancer cells.
April 11, 2019
Treatment with a choline kinase inhibitor prompts immune cells to clear away damaged mitochondria, thus reducing NLRP3 inflammasome activation and preventing inflammation
October 7, 2021
…the road was the hospital where his wife would soon give birth to their first son. As the students exchanged laughs and adjusted their backpack straps, tears began to well up in Gonzalez’s eyes. Proud dad: Gonzalez with sons David and Isaiah. “I couldn’t even explain what it was, but…
June 25, 2020
Public Health Students Graduate and Enter the Workforce During Unprecedented Times How three students from the first graduating class of UC San Diego’s Wertheim School of Public Health plan to inspire change It was a day of firsts. The first graduating class of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health…
