May 21, 2015
…testing, fertility preservation for cancer patients, and early detection and treatment of preeclampsia. The most premature and critically ill newborns will be cared for at a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the new specialty center, equipped with innovations for monitoring infants’ health status non-invasively. Vital sign data…
September 24, 2013
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases – part of the National Institutes of Health – has renewed a grant shared by the University of California, San Diego and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Schools of Medicine. The five-year, $5.64 million renewal will extend and expand…
February 28, 2017
…could indicate how likely cancer will spread to other parts of the body, according to a new study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego. Using a spinning disc device, the researchers found that tumor cells that adhere weakly are more likely to migrate and invade other…
August 7, 2018
…500 surfers, scientists and cancer survivors who share two great passions: surfing and finding a cure for cancer. All proceeds from the public event, which has raised over $8 million since it was launched in 1993, go to support research, teaching and clinical programs at Moores Cancer Center—the only National…
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.
November 10, 2011
Cells develop and thrive by turning genes on and off as needed in a precise pattern, a process known as regulated gene transcription. In a paper published in the November 9 issue of the journal Cell, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say this process…
July 25, 2022
UC San Diego Health top ranked in 10 medical and surgical specialties, among the nation’s best.
June 26, 2020
UC San Diego and Deerfield Management created Poseidon Innovation to support researchers working to advance disease-curing therapeutics by funding early stage projects and expediting the drug-development cycle. Poseidon announces it is funding three researchers.
March 9, 2021
Bioengineers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University have discovered a key feature that allows cancer cells to break from typical cell behavior and migrate away from stiffer tissue in a tumor, shedding light on the process of metastasis and offering possible new targets for cancer therapies.
July 25, 2018
In a study published online July 25 in the journal Nature, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified a signaling pathway that activates the NLRP3 inflammasome implicated in several severe chronic inflammatory disorders.
