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Lights, Camera, Action: Using Filmmaking to Teach Students the Science Behind Natural Disasters

November 5, 2015

…Diego dedicated to providing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education to underserved students in the community. Debi Kilb, a project scientist at Scripps who helps oversee the organization’s educational offerings at the Elementary Institute of Science and other locations, said the class is designed to teach students from Gompers…

Latest ‘Inside Innovation’ Examines Stem Cells’ Role in Causing (and Fighting) Cancer

January 12, 2017

…Jamieson speaking on “Detection and Therapeutic Targeting of Cancer Stem Cell Evolution.” The free and public presentation will be held 4-6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, in Roth Auditorium at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, 2880 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive. A networking reception will follow.

State’s Stem Cell Agency Awards Nearly $8 Million for New Leukemia Therapies

December 1, 2017

The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) unanimously approved yesterday two grants worth a total of almost $8 million to University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers investigating novel stem cell-based treatments for acute myeloid leukemia or AML.

UC San Diego Computer Scientist Receives Prestigious Simons Investigator Award

July 26, 2022

Shachar Lovett has received a Simons Foundation Investigator award, which supports outstanding theoretical scientists in math, physics, astrophysics and computer science.

UC San Diego First to Test Cancer Drugs in Space Using Private Astronaut Mission

May 22, 2023

The latest space experiments from UC San Diego and Axiom Space will explore therapies for breast and colorectal cancer aboard the ISS, and monitor astronauts’ stem cell health over time.

New UC Alliance Aims to Boost Latinx STEM Teaching Professors

March 31, 2022

…Aims to Boost Latinx STEM Teaching Professors Stanley Lo leads four-campus initiative striving to diversify faculty and inspire a new generation of leaders Stanley Lo, an associate teaching professor in Biological Sciences and co-leader of the new UC Hiring Interventions for Representation and Equity (HIRE) Alliance. Within the University of…

UC San Diego Researchers Receive Funding to Pursue Novel Stem Cell-based Treatments

July 20, 2018

…of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers investigating stem cell-based therapies for a rare genetic disorder that affects the heart and a chronic, progressive affliction of the lungs.

$100 Million Gift Launches Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center

November 4, 2013

…Million Gift Launches Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center UC San Diego-based effort will speed discoveries to new drugs and treatments for patients In a bold and singular step toward delivering the therapeutic promise of human stem cells, businessman and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford has committed $100 million to the creation…

Teaming up with the Padres on STEM

November 16, 2017

…with the Padres on STEM “I don’t feel well,” Bobby said. He blinked. His breathing slowed. His face started turning blue. The roomful of teenagers watched Bobby. They giggled. “Alright, I guess he’s had enough of that,” Derek Dudek said, tapping a button on his tablet. Bobby’s face returned to…

Study Provides Hope for Some Human Stem Cell Therapies

August 20, 2015

…San Diego has discovered that an important class of stem cells known as human “induced pluripotent stem cells,” or iPSCs, which are derived from an individual’s own cells, can be differentiated into various types of functional cells with different fates of immune rejection.

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