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Computer Simulations Could Lead to Better Cardiac Pump for Children With Heart Defects

September 10, 2012

Structural and mechanical engineers at the University of California, San Diego, are working together to create blood flow simulations that could lead to improvements in the design of a cardiac pump for children born with heart defects. They hope that the design changes will improve young patients’ outcomes.

Jacobs School Shines at Fluid Dynamics Conference

November 20, 2012

Simulations that help doctors perform life-saving surgeries; a better way to model climate in urban areas; and optimized blood flow patterns for heart patients with pacemakers. Fluid dynamics researchers from the University of California, San Diego, are discussing their research on these topics—and many others—at the 65th Annual Meeting of…

Meet Dr. Brookie Best, Dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

August 11, 2022

…drugs used to treat Kawasaki disease, the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children. She has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed papers, lectured on maternal and pediatric drug therapeutics at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and served on working groups and advisory committees for the National…

Smartly Done

May 18, 2023

Across disciplines and specialties, from cells to systems, artificial intelligence is on its way to altering how we understand and treat disease.

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