July 21, 2021
UC San Diego is one of six universities invited to participate in the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a scientific collaboration that aims to transform human health on a global scale through the discovery and translation of the biological principles underlying human performance.
May 6, 2021
…professor of neurosciences and radiology at UC San Diego Health. The two connected at a mixer organized to introduce engineers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering to existing medical challenges and opportunities that might be addressed through engineering. Fast forward to 2021, and the spark that Dayeh…
October 9, 2024
El Centro Mayor, Sylvia Marroquin, shares her journey with kidney cancer and how a clinical trial at UC San Diego Health saved her life.
October 4, 2016
Four biologists, a nanoengineer and a biophysicist at UC San Diego today received a total of more than $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to pursue innovative and transformative research projects.
November 10, 2022
Eight researchers from UC San Diego are listed in the first-ever ranking of the “1,000 Best Female Scientists in the World” by research.com, an analytics platform that advocates for improved research quality and also ranks universities, scholarly journals and academic conferences.
October 31, 2013
…in Residence, Department of Radiology “Building a Bigger Brain” Tell us a bit about your background: I am an assistant professor in residence in the department of radiology. I am a computational neuroanatomist whose formal training stems from a wide background in the biological sciences and the neurosciences. I am…
April 24, 2024
A thin film that combines an electrode grid and LEDs can both track and produce a visual representation of the brain’s activity in real-time during surgery–a huge improvement over the current state of the art. The device is designed to provide neurosurgeons visual information about a patient’s brain to monitor…
May 20, 2016
The National Microbiome Initiative is one of many large-scale global and national research programs that UC San Diego has played a key role in developing. Two months before the historic climate negotiations held in December in Paris, for example, a smaller group of climate experts and politicians gathered at Scripps…
July 23, 2024
The UC San Diego campus is set to unveil a new facility at 8980 Villa La Jolla Drive that promises to create new opportunities for international students, lifelong learning communities, workforce development efforts and health science research. The new building, located right across the street from the main campus, will…
January 17, 2024
Sensors built with a new manufacturing approach are capable of recording activity deep within the brain from large populations of individual neurons–with a resolution of as few as one or two neurons–in humans as well as a range of animal models.
