November 6, 2014
…Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC Regent Kieffer Marks UC San Diego’s Success with Students, Faculty and Staff UC Regent George Kieffer visited UC San Diego last week to see first-hand the wide-ranging research of our faculty and to meet with UC San Diego community leaders to discuss a broad…
March 8, 2018
…Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego honors 23rd annual Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards recipients for their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion 2017 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awardees: Executive Vice Chancellor and Vice Chancellor Area Recipients Academic Affairs: Chandler E. Puritty Advancement: Danielle Dawson, JD,…
November 16, 2017
…Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Pioneering Physiologist Establishes Endowed Chair at UC San Diego School of Medicine $2 million gift from Professor Emeritus John B. West will support teaching and research in respiratory physiology Physiologist John B. West, M.D., Ph.D., can claim many firsts during his career at the University…
July 9, 2012
…and elsewhere in the July 8, 2012 Advance Online Publication of Nature Medicine.
August 6, 2012
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say neutrophils, an abundant type of white blood cell typically tasked with attacking bacteria and other foreign invaders, also plays an unexpected role in mediating insulin resistance – the central characteristic of type 2 diabetes, which afflicts an estimated…
January 23, 2023
Researchers at University of California San Diego and UC Riverside have further elucidated the molecular pathway used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to infect human lung cells, identifying a key host-cell player that may prove a new and enduring therapeutic target for treating COVID-19.
August 23, 2018
…a lasting legacy in health care through a philanthropic gift of $50 million to the University of California San Diego. Inspired by his father, an ophthalmologist, Viterbi’s gift will name The Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology and The Viterbi Family Vision Research Center, and create six new endowed chairs for…
September 24, 2013
…the National Institutes of Health – has renewed a grant shared by the University of California, San Diego and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Schools of Medicine. The five-year, $5.64 million renewal will extend and expand research into acute kidney failure, or acute kidney injury, which kills 70 to…
August 23, 2018
The CIPRES science gateway, which supports major discoveries about evolutionary relationships among our planet’s living creatures, has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will provide more than $2.8 million to sustain and enhance the gateway.
November 26, 2014
San Diego, Calif., Nov. 25, 2014—Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that mouse embryos are contemplating their cellular fates in the earliest stages after fertilization when the embryo has only two to four cells, a discovery that could upend the scientific consensus about when embryonic cells…
