August 7, 2013
Faustina Solís—an educator and pioneer in public health and the second provost of the University of California, San Diego’s Thurgood Marshall College—died on August 4 in San Diego, Ca., at age 90.
May 9, 2023
Assistant Professor Sonya Neal has been named by HHMI as an inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. She joins an initial cohort of outstanding early career faculty in science who have potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive lab environments.
June 19, 2012
…multiple levels at which physicians could make a difference. We worked with ‘grassroots’ doctors who directly provide healthcare in developing countries, and I saw how their implementation of health education, water sanitation, and basic level of health-care made a significant difference in the lives of the underserved.” Among his other…
March 18, 2021
…medical students serving as assistants to the dentists,” said Silverstein, who began working at the UCSD Student-Run Free Dental Clinic Project in 2003. “The dental chair and X-ray unit were so old that they blew out the electricity in the church, forcing it to rewire the electrical system.” The Free…
January 6, 2015
…team of scientists and physicians from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with counterparts at University of California, Los Angeles, describe a novel imaging technique that measurably improves upon current prostate imaging – and may have significant implications for how patients with prostate cancer are ultimately treated.
November 20, 2024
Edward Wang and co-investigators Byron Fergerson and Rodney Gabriel receive NIH Trailblazer award for using technology to transform healthcare; their smartphone app prototype gauges grip strength to help avoid surgery complications.
September 9, 2021
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers will receive $6.4 million in National Institutes of Health grant funding to study how external signals and genetic variations influence the behavior of one cell type in particular: insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
May 21, 2013
…graduate student in UC San Diego’s Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the Medical Science Training Program will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled “Outsmarting Malaria: Developing next generation anti-malarials that prevent the evolution of drug resistance.”
December 8, 2015
Parkinson’s disease is difficult to diagnose, particularly in its early stages. Now, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine – aided by a $375,000 grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) – hope to improve the prospects of early diagnosis by identifying a…
June 25, 2015
…of the nation’s leading physician-scientists in the search to better understand and treat Alzheimer’s disease – William Mobley, MD, PhD, and Michael Rafii, MD, PhD – have been named interim co-directors of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), a major initiative formed in 1991 as a cooperative agreement between the…
