August 19, 2024
UC San Diego will open the Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox on Aug. 29 as a unique world-class resource for science, education and training. Meet Uri Manor, the faculty director of the new facility, who comes to UC San Diego with a background filled with extraordinary challenges and successes.
January 17, 2019
…to become a tenured neuroscience professor at a major research university… Not likely, having been born to a mother who was 16 years old ... Not likely, having grown up in Compton and attended high school in Watts. Related Story A Time to Step Up As she navigated the pathways…
November 15, 2018
…in the Department of Neurosciences at the newly established School of Medicine. Because the school had yet to be built, his offices were located at Scripps. “The outdoor life was quite a surprise,” said Chimienti. “At lunch time, everyone got into swim suits. The men’s bathroom was full of surfboards.…
March 14, 2016
Each year, at precisely the same moment, thousands of graduating medical school students across the country simultaneously tear open an envelope. Inside, there is a single sheet of paper and on it, a handful of words. Those words will inform each graduate where he or she will do their residencies,…
July 27, 2020
UC San Diego Health is ranked first in San Diego and sixth in California, placing it among the nation’s best hospitals, according to the 2020-2021 U.S. News & World Report. Eight common procedures and conditions were also rated “high performing.”
February 22, 2012
…in the department of neuroscience. In addition to experiencing the life of a scientist and solidifying her interest in pursuing a Ph.D., the Amgen Scholars Program helped Goetz develop a strong network of friends and colleagues that supported her through graduate school applications and continue to be a valuable support…
April 18, 2019
…Mandell, M.D., a 35-year-old neuroscientist and psychiatrist who was, at the time, the youngest physician ever appointed chair of a medical school psychiatry program in the United States. Mandell was an early advocate of biological psychiatry, the concept that mental disorders could be studied and understood in terms of the…
October 1, 2019
Three University of California San Diego researchers have received prestigious awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, including the Pioneer Award, the program’s top honor.
November 10, 2022
Eight researchers from UC San Diego are listed in the first-ever ranking of the “1,000 Best Female Scientists in the World” by research.com, an analytics platform that advocates for improved research quality and also ranks universities, scholarly journals and academic conferences.
April 24, 2024
A thin film that combines an electrode grid and LEDs can both track and produce a visual representation of the brain’s activity in real-time during surgery–a huge improvement over the current state of the art. The device is designed to provide neurosurgeons visual information about a patient’s brain to monitor…
