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UC San Diego Ranks 7th in the World for Most Influential Researchers

December 4, 2023

UC San Diego has the highest number of influential voices in the University of California system and ranks 7th highest among universities worldwide, according to Clarivate’s 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list.

Familiarity Breeds Exempt: Why Staph Vaccines Don’t Work in Humans

July 7, 2022

UC San Diego researchers say they may have found the reason why multiple human clinical trials of staphylococcus vaccines have failed: the bacteria knows us too well.

Spotlight on Faculty Research: Stem Cell

November 14, 2011

…disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, are characterized by loss of forebrain neurons. Scientists believe cell replacement might provide a therapeutic strategy if they could generate neurons that had the same properties as the cells that are lost. While scientists have previously generated neurons from embryonic stem cells, Ghosh’s project seeks…

Obituary Notice: Don Wilkie, Former Executive Director of Scripps Aquarium

October 21, 2015

Donald Walter Wilkie, director of the Scripps Aquarium-Museum from 1965-1993 and founding director of the Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum (now known as Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), died on October 5, 2015, in San Diego. He was 84 years old.

High-Tech Surgical Suites Let Doctors Scan Patients without Either Leaving the Operating Room

November 28, 2018

High-tech surgical suites allow doctors to scan patients without either leaving the operating room.

Common Antibiotic May Be the Answer to Many Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections

June 10, 2015

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences report that the common antibiotic azithromycin kills many multidrug-resistant bacteria very effectively — when tested under conditions that closely resemble the human body and its natural antimicrobial factors. The researchers believe the…

Big Data for Chemistry

November 18, 2016

An international team of computer scientists has for the first time developed a method to find antibiotics hidden in huge but still unexplored mass spectrometry datasets. They detailed their new method, called DEREPLICATOR, in the Oct. 31 issue of Nature Chemical Biology.

A Dose of Research

March 23, 2017

…and education in neglected diseases and underserved patient populations Doctorate of pharmacy graduates typically follow paths that lead them to a career as a pharmacist in a hospital or community pharmacy, or as a researcher in academia or a pharmaceutical company. For Jincheng Yang, a student in the Skaggs School…

UC San Diego Researchers Add Monkeypox to Wastewater Surveillance

August 10, 2022

A UC San Diego-led program that monitors wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 and which has effectively predicted subsequent surges in COVID-19 cases in San Diego has been expanded to detect the presence of monkeypox.

Q&A: Strengthening Antibody Armor for Tripledemic Times

November 3, 2022

This season there are three prevalent respiratory viruses to be aware of—influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), all of which are transmitted via aerosols.

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