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HIV Prevention in a Pill

April 24, 2012

…in the departments of pathology and medicine at UC San Diego and longtime AIDS researcher. “We felt like battlefield doctors with the sick and dying coming in faster than we could treat them – if we could treat them at all.” Much has changed, of course. These days, scientists and…

Ferrara Receives Gairdner Prize, Canada’s Highest Honor in Life Sciences

March 26, 2014

Napoleone Ferrara, MD, distinguished professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and senior deputy director for basic sciences at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, was named today among eight recipients of the Canada Gairdner Awards at a ceremony in Toronto.

Eyes Provide Peek at Alzheimer’s Disease Risk

August 23, 2021

Amyloid plaques found in the retinas of eyes may be an indicator of similar plaques in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and may provide a more visible biomarker for detecting disease risk.

UC San Diego Partners with 5 Leading Diagnostics Manufacturers to Boost COVID-19 Testing

March 20, 2020

Partnering with five diagnostics manufacturers, UC San Diego is significantly ramping up testing for COVID-19, projecting capacity to complete up to 1,500 tests daily within two to three weeks.

Neurological Disorder Impacts Brain Cells Differently

November 9, 2011

…and University of Washington describe in deeper detail the pathology of a devastating neurological disorder, but also reveal new cellular targets for possibly slowing its development.

Subtle Decline in Cognition Predicts Progression to Alzheimer’s Pathology

February 14, 2020

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine report that abnormal levels of beta-amyloid plaques in brain predict cognitive decline and higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, but also that cognitive performance predicts progression from normal to abnormal levels of beta-amyloid.

Color-Coded Markers May Help Doctors Diagnose Neural Diseases Through the Eyes

August 15, 2012

Sticky plaques of proteins called amyloids mark several different, though related degenerative brain diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Creutzfeld-Jacobs. The symptoms of these disorders overlap and methods to diagnose and monitor them are not very advanced.

Four UC San Diego Faculty Receive NIH New Innovator Awards

October 6, 2015

Four professors at UC San Diego will receive New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health of approximately $2.2 million over the next five years to support their “unusually innovative research,” the NIH announced today.

Oncogene Mutation Hijacks Splicing Process to Promote Growth and Survival

May 31, 2013

…for Cancer Research and professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine – has found that a singular gene mutation helps brain cancer cells to not just survive, but grow tumors rapidly by altering the splicing of genes that control cellular metabolism.

Engineering the Microbiome to Potentially Cure Disease

August 4, 2022

UC San Diego researchers report using native bacteria in mice as the chassis for delivering transgenes capable of inducing persistent and potentially even curative therapeutic changes in the gut and reversing disease pathologies.

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