March 18, 2021
…the University of California San Diego brought together a panel of industry experts and esteemed faculty for a unique and thought-provoking event, “The Fear Factor: Examining Mistrust and Vaccines.” Over 1,200 campus and community members registered to participate in the interactive webinar, kicking off the university’s “Evenings of Nonconventional Wisdom”…
March 8, 2018
…Imaging Research (NCMIR) at UC San Diego School of Medicine is an international resource for microscopy expertise, infrastructure, technology development and analysis. Seeing is Understanding The way we see cells has changed dramatically in the last 50 years In the 1980s and ’90s, Roger Tsien at UC San Diego School…
April 16, 2020
…to see the adverse health effects of agricultural labor. Men, women, and even young people like her succumbed to dehydration. A few required hospitalization after suffering from heatstroke. This became a common occurrence. “I saw a lot of health issues tied to being a farmworker, such as pesticide exposure, heatstroke,…
April 17, 2014
…inspiring. That’s exactly what UC San Diego graduate students were challenged to accomplish for the inaugural Grad SLAM competition, which concluded April 9. Hosted by the Office of Graduate Studies in collaboration with the Center for Student Involvement – Communication and Leadership, Grad SLAM was created to highlight the impact…
November 30, 2017
…2014, she launched the UC San Diego BioClock Studio to promote and educate students about circadian biology. Golden, a Chancellor’s Associates Chair of molecular biology and director of UC San Diego’s Center for Circadian Biology, was awarded a five-year, $1 million grant to start the BioClock Studio through an HHMI…
November 30, 2017
…of research center at UC San Diego. It would bring biologists like himself working to understand the circadian rhythms of various kinds of organisms—from bacteria and plants to fruit flies and roundworms—together with researchers at the medical school investigating human sleep disorders. “I had connections to the medical school because…
July 23, 2020
…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, engineers and fabrication specialists at the Qualcomm Institute’s Prototyping Lab leapt into action. Vacuum exhaused isolation lockers, or VEILs, produced in the Prototyping Lab are ready…
May 19, 2022
…Jepsen/University Communications. Every quarter, UC San Diego engineers Joshua Pelz and Luca De Vivo, as well as prosthetics specialist Herb Barrack, travel to Ensenada, Mexico, where they work with amputees to provide free, 3D-printed, custom-made prostheses. The team takes scans of the amputees’ residual limbs with smartphones, which they then…
January 23, 2020
…But some researchers at UC San Diego are using technological advances to develop new ways to help patients retain not just their privacy, but also their autonomy and control over their own medical treatment. For Dr. Sara Browne, that is the most critical aspect of her research. As a professor…
March 23, 2017
…Yang. Photo by Kyle Dykes/UC San Diego Health. A Dose of Research Pharmaceutical company collaboration supports research 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…
