February 28, 2019
Pharmaceutical leader Cam Garner and his wife Wanda, a cancer workshop facilitator and philanthropic fundraiser, recently gave $2 million to establish the Garner Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Blood and Marrow Transplant at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
October 5, 2011
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may lead to a way to prevent the progression, or induce the regression, of lung injury that results from use of the anti-cancer chemotherapy drug Bleomycin. Pulmonary fibrosis caused by this drug, as well as Idiopathic…
May 20, 2019
UC San Diego researchers discover new role for epidermal growth factor receptor in blood stem cell development, a crucial key to being able to generate them in the laboratory, and circumvent the need for bone marrow donation.
April 15, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a mechanism that explains why people with the hepatitis C virus get liver disease and why the virus is able to persist in the body for so long.
December 3, 2018
Following the FDA’s approval of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies for the treatment of certain types of non-Hodgkin lymphomas, UC San Diego Health was the first medical center in San Diego to be certified to offer this type of immunotherapy outside of a clinical trial.
February 17, 2022
…still need a heart transplant one day, but she is undaunted. “It does no good to worry about the future, because you can’t know it,” she said, flashing an almost-constant smile. “Anyway, I’ve got fabulous things to look forward to in my future—like FaceTiming my two grandchildren every morning—and I…
February 5, 2019
Using a leading-edge technique, UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers defined the cell types in both newborn and adult human testes and identified biomarkers for spermatogonial stem cells, opening a path for new strategies to treat male infertility.
June 3, 2024
UC San Diego pharmacy student Grace Riggs outcompeted over a hundred students from across the country in the National Patient Counseling Competition, sponsored by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the Academy of Student Pharmacists (ASP).
January 10, 2013
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, collaborating with scientists from San Diego-based biotech company ViaCyte, Inc., looked at the differences and similarities between two types of hESC-derived endocrine cell populations and primary human endocrine cells, with the longer-term goal of developing new stem cell therapies…
January 7, 2016
…organs and tissues for transplants Shaochen Chen, professor in the Jacobs School of Engineering and co-director of the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are in need of organ transplants. Unfortunately, organs for transplants are in short supply and even when they are…
