April 21, 2016
…Knight, a professor of pediatrics and computer science and engineering who heads the campus microbiome initiative, to identify the bacteria living in the human gut. Once isolated, the biologists keep them in a lab freezer for later use, in various combinations, to try to understand how they interact in forming…
February 5, 2024
Researchers from University of California San Diego have developed a new search tool to that can match microbes to the metabolites they produce with no prior knowledge, an innovation that could transform our understanding of both human health and the environment.
January 23, 2020
…Cherqui, associate professor of pediatrics, and her team at University of California San Diego School of Medicine. “The day they started looking for people for the trial, my mom picked up the phone, found a number for Dr. Cherqui, called her and put my name in as a candidate,” Janz…
February 11, 2021
…Smith and Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy Victor Nizet. The live panel conversation will be moderated by Cheryl Anderson, professor and founding dean of The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego. To join the “The Fear Factor: Examining Mistrust and Vaccines” event,…
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.
April 22, 2021
…As a professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine, her particular interest is in understanding how exposure to environmental compounds, such as pesticides, medications and infections, can affect embryonic development during pregnancy and childhood development via breastmilk. Often, her research is longitudinal, following groups of parents and…
May 19, 2016
…Knight, a professor of pediatrics and computer science and engineering and director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation, why he moved his family and his lab—totaling some 25 people—from Boulder, Colorado to La Jolla last year and one of the reasons he cites is the campus’s leadership in developing and…
April 6, 2023
After decades of working in industry and academia, biophysicists Alex Savtchenko and Elena Molokanova still have big dreams.
October 7, 2021
…a professor of clinical pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and an infectious disease specialist at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego. “When I was an intern, we had vaccines for seven diseases in children and now we have more than 20, although they are not all used routinely. “When…
January 31, 2023
The evolution of clinical trials is accelerating, driven by emerging technologies, social imperatives and the next public health crisis.
