May 23, 2019
…of leaders. Honorary Alumna Carol Littlejohn Chang Reinventing community involvement through leadership and influence Chair of the UC San Diego Foundation. Taking on big jobs to raise big funds for San Diego nonprofits. A woman who means business and meaningfully impacts people and the world around her. International Award Bryn…
January 12, 2017
…California hospitals, moving inpatient care to a new level. “By adding connectivity in every patient room, each person can take control of their hospital experience through regulation of their environment to connecting online with friends and family for support,” said Dr. Thomas J. Savides, chief experience officer at UC San…
December 9, 2021
…energy efficiency and self-driving cars that interact better with pedestrians and with one another. The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation named UC San Diego one of six universities to participate in the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a scientific collaboration that aims to transform human health on a global scale…
July 23, 2020
…boxes for patients and caregivers, Qualcomm Institute’s Prototyping Lab has been lending its equipment and expertise to help combat COVID-19 In the midst of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic that had UC San Diego researchers racing to understand the complexities around the virus’s spread and to find ways to combat it,…
May 2, 2019
…females are able to carry a pregnancy, Durrant’s team will use the robotic catheter on a related subspecies, the southern white rhino. The plan is to first create northern white rhino eggs and sperm using stem cells from previously collected frozen cell lines, then fertilize them to generate northern white…
March 9, 2017
…she characterizes as a surgical parallel to precision medicine, the latter largely focused upon an individual’s genetic makeup and how treatment can be uniquely tailored to each patient’s disease or condition. “We seek to personalize the process of surgical intervention,” she said. “Surgery is a step-by-step process that culminates in…
January 25, 2018
…medicine, infectious diseases and cardiovascular disease, particularly as they related to the relatively new field of genetics. Perhaps due to his own varied, interdisciplinary research interests, Stokes and the other founding faculty wanted to build a school that didn’t just have medical students memorize disease symptoms and their treatments from…
July 2, 2020
…is developing a bioabsorbable surgical clip that can help neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons more quickly and easily repair the dura mater during spinal surgery. The dura is the membrane that covers and protects the brain, spinal cord and cerebrospinal fluid. It is a small device that can have a…
February 26, 2024
Qualcomm Institute Director Ramesh Rao chats with Roland Lee and Mingxiong Huang, who co-direct QI’s new Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center on the underpinnings of the advanced brain imaging technique, the making of the new facility, and MEG’s contributions to research and patient care.
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.
