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Alumni Entrepreneurs Build Business Models Around Giving Back

October 25, 2012

…surviving a brush with cancer, she decided to take a risk and began creating canine couture. From seersucker jackets with Tory Burch buttons, to Prada vests trimmed in faux fur and rhinestones, the couture speaks for itself. It also serves a philanthropic purpose. The dog models featured on Myfavoritecouture.com are…

One Life, Two Viruses: HIV and SARS-CoV-2

August 20, 2020

…Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, is examining medical records of people who are living with HIV and have COVID-19 across eight academic centers in the U.S. The data is derived from the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS), a National Institutes of Health-funded research network…

UC San Diego Becomes Nation’s Youngest University to Reach $3 Billion in Fundraising Campaign

June 9, 2022

…being touched personally by cancer, also donated $12 million to establish the Hanna and Mark Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, with the objective of sparking new treatments and discoveries related to head and neck cancer, which can be extremely complicated to treat and recover…

Clinical Trial Studying Possible New Treatment Option for Patients with NAFLD

August 23, 2023

$9 million grant awarded to researchers with UC San Diego School of Medicine supports new study of semaglutide for liver disease.

New 3D Imaging Reveals How Human Cell Nucleus Organizes DNA and Chromatin of its Genome

July 27, 2017

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies describe development and application of new electron microscopic imaging tools and a selective stain for DNA to visualize the three-dimensional structure of chromatin — a complex of molecules that…

Host-Cell Factors Involved in COVID-19 Infections May Augur Improved Treatments

January 23, 2023

Researchers at University of California San Diego and UC Riverside have further elucidated the molecular pathway used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to infect human lung cells, identifying a key host-cell player that may prove a new and enduring therapeutic target for treating COVID-19.

New More Effective Antimicrobials Might Rise From Old

October 7, 2013

By tinkering with their chemical structures, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have essentially re-invented a class of popular antimicrobial drugs, restoring and in some cases, expanding or improving, their effectiveness against drug-resistant pathogens in animal models.

Top UC San Diego Researchers Win ‘Oscars of Science’

December 7, 2017

…the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego, was honored for his work “elucidating the molecular pathogenesis of a type of inherited ALS, including the role of glia in neurodegeneration, and for establishing antisense oligonucleotide therapy in animal models of ALS and Huntington’s disease.” He has made seminal contributions to…

Measuring the Intelligence of a Cell

April 4, 2024

A new center of excellence at the University of California San Diego integrates research, industry and technology to enhance quantitative biology.

Study Uncovers Metabolic Cause for Rare Eye Disease

September 11, 2019

An international team of researchers has discovered a cause for a rare eye disease affecting the macula that leads to loss of central vision, called macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel).

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