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UC San Diego Announces Recipients of Chancellor’s Medals and Lifetime Legacy Award

January 26, 2023

Recognizing exceptional support to the campus, UC San Diego announced Karen and Jeff Silberman; the Step Family; and Sandra Timmons ’81 and Richard Sandstrom ’72, PhD ’79, as recipients of the 2022 Chancellor’s Medal. T. Denny Sanford is being recognized with the second-ever Lifetime Legacy Award.

Scientists Decipher Mechanisms Underlying the Biology of Aging

November 2, 2017

…MCB-1616127); University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (L.P.); Department of Defense, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Defense Science and Engineering (graduate fellowship 32 CFR 168a); Human Frontier Science Program (fellowship LT000840/2014-C); and the San Diego Center for Systems Biology National Institutes of Health (grant P50-GM085764).

UC San Diego Health Joins Leading National Network Targeting Depressive Illnesses

September 30, 2015

UC San Diego Health has been designated a member of the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC), a consortium of leading academic medical centers working to accelerate research, education and improved treatment options for people with depressive and bipolar illnesses. UC San Diego Health joins 22 other institutions in the…

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Linked to an Immune Cell Run Amok

August 24, 2020

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine report that the lasting nature of inflammatory bowel disease may be due to a type of long-lived immune cell that can provoke persistent, damaging inflammation in the intestinal tract.

Rohit Loomba, MD, Named Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

June 13, 2023

Loomba will lead the division at UC San Diego School of Medicine, building upon a team that shines a light on UC San Diego Health’s tripartite mission.

UC San Diego Researchers First to Use CRISPR/Cas9 to Control Genetic Inheritance in Mice

January 23, 2019

Using active genetics technology, biologists have developed the world’s first CRISPR/Cas9-based approach to control genetic inheritance in a mammal. The achievement in mice lays the groundwork for further advances based on this technology, including biomedical research on human disease.

Eight UC San Diego Researchers Among ‘1,000 Best Female Scientists in the World’

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.

Olympian, Athletics and Campus Community Show UC Pride at Onward California

October 18, 2012

…50 percent reduction in the risk of developing pancreatic cancer. Vanilla Lick - UC Santa Cruz With headquarters at UC Santa Cruz, Lick Observatory is home to many astronomical discoveries, including several moons of Jupiter and extrasolar planets.

Immune Cell Identity Crisis: What Makes a Liver Macrophage a Liver Macrophage?

October 3, 2019

UC San Diego researchers investigated how a type of immune cell called a macrophage becomes specialized to the liver. Their study, published October 3, 2019 in Immunity, sets the stage for understanding how macrophage specialization gets disrupted by — or contributes to — liver disease.

$1.2 Million Grant Funds a New Generation of Healthcare Telemanipulation Robots

January 12, 2021

Researchers at UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Irvine and San Diego State University have been awarded a $1.2 million UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) grant to develop an advanced class of mobile telemanipulation robots.

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