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UC San Diego’s Connections with the Dalai Lama Run Deep

June 8, 2017

…Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego’s Connections with the Dalai Lama Run Deep His Holiness’s service to humanity and science has created long-lasting relationships with UC San Diego During his June 2017 visit to the University of California San Diego, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will share…

Building Robust Collaborations to ‘ATTACK’ Future Pandemics

January 18, 2022

Six University of California campuses, in coordination with two national labs and more than one dozen industry partners, have formed the University of California-National Labs Antiviral Treatments Targeting All Coronaviruses and Key RNA viruses Consortium to prepare for and prevent future pandemics.

Medical Students Learn Residency Fate at Match Day

April 2, 2015

…the University of California’s PRIME-Health Equity program, designed to train physicians to serve at-risk populations. As part of the program, he extended his education by additionally earning MPH/MBA degrees from Johns Hopkins University between his third and fourth years of medical school. “My career goal is to travel to Africa…

Fine Particulate Matter from Wildfire Smoke More Harmful than Pollution from Other Sources

March 5, 2021

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego examining 14 years of hospital admissions data conclude that the fine particles in wildfire smoke can be several times more harmful to human respiratory health than particulate matter from other sources such as car exhaust.

UC San Diego Researchers Connect Premature Births to Possible Causes in Central California

October 15, 2019

A UC San Diego-led research team has created an interactive map of preterm births and potential environmental and social drivers across Fresno County in central California. A similar map will be unveiled for the San Francisco and Oakland areas October 21.

UC San Diego Announces 2020 Undergraduate Library Research Prize Winners

July 30, 2020

The UC San Diego Library, which is ranked among the nation’s top 25 public academic libraries, announced the 2020 recipients of the Undergraduate Library Research Prize (ULRP), an annual scholarship program that enriches the undergraduate student experience at UC San Diego.

UC San Diego and Deerfield Management Create Poseidon Innovation to Advance Disease-Curing Therapeutics

September 5, 2018

University of California San Diego and Deerfield Management announce today the creation of Poseidon Innovation, LLC to advance disease-curing therapeutics. Through Deerfield’s $65-million commitment in Poseidon, UC San Diego investigators will have the funding and support to weather risky early-stage processes and expedite the drug-development cycle, allowing patients to receive…

Pediatric Liver Disease Increases Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes

June 13, 2022

UC San Diego researchers describe connection between pediatric liver disease and increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Both rates are rising in children.

Girl Child Marriages Decline In South Asia, But Only Among Youngest

May 16, 2012

Each year, more than 10 million girls under the age of 18 marry, usually under force of local tradition and social custom. Almost half of these compulsory marriages occur in South Asia. A new study suggests that more than two decades of effort to eliminate the practice has produced mixed…

Herpes Virus Exploits Immune Response to Bolster Infection

June 6, 2013

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues report that the herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1), which affects an estimated 50 to 80 percent of all American adults, exploits an immune system receptor to boost its infectivity and ability to cause disease.

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