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Anthropology Professor Thomas J. Csordas Named to Dr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair

July 7, 2015

Thomas J. Csordas, renowned anthropologist and director of the Global Health Program at the University of California, San Diego, has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Dr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair for Global Health in the Division of Social Sciences.

Three UC San Diego Researchers Elected to National Academy of Medicine

October 19, 2015

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced today the election of three new members from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine: Napoleone Ferrara, MD; Christopher K. Glass, MD, PhD; and Roberto Malinow, MD, PhD. Election to NAM is considered among the highest honors in the fields of health…

Actual Reality Beckons at Conference on Future of Virtual Reality

October 21, 2015

Virtual reality has become a lightning rod, with opinions split on the substance and relevance of its future applications. UC San Diego’s recent “Future of Virtual Reality” conference demonstrated that this technology has far-reaching potential—not only in the realm of gaming, but in fields like archaeology and medicine as well.

Physicists Predict Mechanics of Touch

November 30, 2015

A physical model accounts for observed neural responses to touch and predicts additional properties of this sensory system.

Breathing is a Rhythm for Life, and More

April 1, 2016

Respiration is more than just an essential rhythm for life. A new study has found that rhythmic neural patterns that control breathing also coordinate movements of muscles on the mouth and face that serve a variety of sensory, ingestive and social behaviors.

Biologists Discover New Strategy to Treat Central Nervous System Injury

April 11, 2016

Neurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered how signals that orchestrate the construction of the nervous system also influence recovery after traumatic injury. They also found that manipulating these signals can enhance the return of function.

UC San Diego Technology Debuts at California’s Great America in New “Mass Effect”™ Attraction

May 18, 2016

“Mass Effect: New Earth, A 4D Holographic Journey” opens to the public today and features Near/Far Acoustic Field (NFAF), an audio infrastructure developed by researchers based at the Qualcomm Institute.

Blocking Neuron Signaling Pathway Could Lead to New Treatments for Peripheral Neuropathy

January 17, 2017

…identified a molecular signaling pathway that, when blocked, promotes sensory neuron growth and prevents or reverses peripheral neuropathy in cell and rodent models of type 1 and 2 diabetes, chemotherapy-induced neuropathy and HIV.

New Mouse Model Replicates an Underlying Cause of Intellectual Disability

September 29, 2017

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed the first mice that lack the Upf3b gene, providing a new model for studying its underlying role in intellectual disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Tackling ‘Ocean Exploration in a Sea of Data’ at the National Ocean Exploration Forum

November 6, 2017

The fifth annual forum included scholars of data science, ocean exploration and other disciplines who are interested in how data science analysis and visualization techniques can be applied to oceanographic data.

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