December 11, 2014
Scientists have discovered a general principle for how cells could accurately transmit chemical signals despite high levels of noise in the system, they report in Science this week.
September 13, 2012
…of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his role in helping develop and expand the use of green fluorescent proteins (GFP) was honored today with one of the first-ever “Golden Goose Awards.”
February 14, 2011
…Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry/Scripps Institution of Oceanography and he is the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He shared the Prize with Sherwood Rowland of U.C. Irvine and Paul Crutzen, also now on the UC San Diego faculty, for elucidating the threat of chlorofluorocarbon gases to the…
July 28, 2022
…professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, has been named a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by the Department of Defense (DOD). Devaraj was one of only nine selected fellows, and the first from UC San Diego since 2015. He was recognized for his proposed work on “engineering dynamic…
January 18, 2012
…a post-graduate degree. The biochemistry major is currently visiting medical schools around the country—including those at Harvard, New York University and Johns Hopkins—with the goal of someday becoming a physician to help those in need. Do was recently honored with a Division of Physical Sciences Dean’s Award for Excellence, recognizing…
October 17, 2017
…Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s J. Andrew McCammon. The distinguished professor, who also holds the Joseph E. Mayer Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, will deliver the Russ Pitzer Lecture Nov. 13 at Ohio State University, which named McCammon the winner of the 2017 Russell M. Pitzer Award. McCammon’s talk will address…
July 6, 2015
Alan R. Saltiel, PhD, whose studies of the hormone insulin have helped drive research of obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders across the nation, is joining University of California, San Diego School of Medicine as professor and director of a new Comprehensive Diabetes Center.
March 26, 2020
…Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. “If we have a good model for what the outside of the particle looks like and how it behaves, we’re going to get a good view of the different components that are involved in molecular recognition,” said Amaro, a professor…
May 2, 2016
Chemists at UC San Diego have created an “adaptive protein crystal” with a counterintuitive and potentially useful property: When stretched in one direction, the material thickens in the perpendicular direction, rather than thinning as familiar materials do. And when squeezed in one dimension, it shrinks in the other rather than…
February 11, 2016
Clear images of minute packages meant to shield healthy cells from potent anti-cancer drugs have helped researchers evaluate a promising of new approach to chemotherapy.
