December 14, 2023
This year, UC San Diego recognized 12 hardworking students as 2023 Triton Student Employees of the Year. Meet four of these standouts, nominated for their remarkable contributions to the UC San Diego community, and learn how their campus jobs have helped shape their future aspirations.
December 23, 2019
Novel spinal therapy/delivery approach prevented disease onset in neurodegenerative ALS disease model in adult mice and blocked progression in animals already showing disease symptoms.
December 9, 2021
…justice work and improving equity will be continued by alumna Fnann Keflezighi, who most recently held the position of assistant dean of Student Affairs at Thurgood Marshall College. For Keflezighi, the Cross-Cultural Center was the first place at UC San Diego, and in her life, that she felt her “intersectional…
July 1, 2022
Scientists have developed a CRISPR-based technology that could offer a safer approach to correcting genetic defects. The new “soft” CRISPR system makes use of natural DNA repair machinery, providing a foundation for novel gene therapy strategies with the potential to cure genetic diseases.
April 26, 2016
The California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) of University of California has awarded grants totaling $9.4 million to three teams of investigators to provide and evaluate PrEP – the HIV prevention pill – among transgender persons at risk for HIV acquisition in California.
May 30, 2019
…in Health Behavior and Equity; and featuring Herbert Wertheim, optometrist, innovator and philanthropist. “Thanks to Nicole and Herbert’s transformative generosity, we’re recognizing them for their amazing vision of imagining public health here at UC San Diego,” said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “With a focus on public health, we can define…
October 7, 2021
…a dramatic impact on patients in underserved communities, and was recently awarded the 2021 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award for her work. As the first person in her family to attend college, and a child of immigrants, Rodriguez knew from a very young age that she wanted…
September 30, 2021
In three Science papers, UC San Diego and UC San Francisco researchers mapped out how hundreds of gene mutations involved in cancer affect the discrete groups of proteins that are the ultimate actors behind the disease. The work points the way to identifying new precision treatments.
June 17, 2024
Researchers at UC San Diego found an unusually large brain may be the first sign of autism and visible as early as the first trimester.
April 3, 2023
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a five-year, $15.45 million grant to the San Diego Center for AIDS Research at UC San Diego, renewing support that extends back to an original establishing grant in 1994 at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
