October 9, 2014
…announcement by the National Science Foundation of early concept grants for brain research from the BRAIN Initiative to another four teams at UC San Diego totaling more than a $1 million. “Our success rate in winning these NIH and NSF awards is a reflection of the strength of our neuroscience…
April 26, 2018
…ASD, such as aggressive behaviors, repetitive or self-injurious behaviors, hyperactivity and social and communicative deficits. “We clearly need more treatment options for children with moderate to severe autism, those who suffer the greatest impact and who need the most help,” said Dr. Igor Grant, CMCR director and chair of the…
October 17, 2017
A noted scholar and a world-leader in microbiome research, Rob Knight, Ph.D. will take guests inside the human body and share the dirt on the microbiome, the focus of his new book, published in June 2017. On Tuesday, October 24, Knight will discuss Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs…
November 12, 2015
…eating disorders and addictive behaviors, among others. At the University of California, San Diego, a $400,000 pledge from alumnus and hedge fund founder Joseph E. Edelman will directly benefit students in need of ongoing psychiatric services, while also improving opportunities for specialized fellowship training and clinical research in college mental…
May 19, 2016
…grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The awards were made to fund research projects that the two federal science agencies expect will make transformative insights into understanding how the brain works. CBAM has so far seeded 22 projects. These grants are designed to spur…
January 7, 2016
…of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and director of the Center for Excellence in Nanomedicine What’s the biggest challenge in health care today? “Patient adherence to taking medication,” says Almutairi. People usually don’t remember or want to take a pill every day, and that’s a big hurdle to researchers like Almutairi,…
May 1, 2023
Biological sciences professor Nick Spitzer reflects on 50 years of teaching, and an innovation award is launched in his name to support original scientific research by undergraduate students.
April 4, 2013
…aims to advance the science and technologies needed to map and decipher brain activity. Sitting in the front row for the announcement were three University of California chancellors, including UC San Diego’s Pradeep K. Khosla. Chancellor Khosla was accompanied at the White House by Ralph Greenspan, associate director of the…
February 24, 2022
…San Diego Department of Psychiatry, her passion for leadership has only grown. As a bilateral above-the-knee amputee, Nakhla understands the needs of those who are impacted by a disability. This desire to help others inspired Nakhla to establish a chapter of the Delta Alpha Pi (DAPi) International Honor Society, the…
August 9, 2017
Microbiome researchers Rob Knight, PhD, University of California San Diego, Jeffrey Gordon, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Norman Pace, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, will share this year’s Massry Prize, splitting the $200,000 honorarium. These researchers lead a field that works to produce a detailed…
