December 10, 2020
…Immunotherapy Trial Launched Despite COVID-19 Pandemic First patient to receive individualized TIL therapy undergoes treatment at Moores Cancer Center Since 2016, Bernard Thurman has undergone traditional treatments, experimental therapies and surgeries to counter the cancer within him, but nothing successfully eradicated the disease. Earlier this year, the oncologists in Los…
January 21, 2021
…the first rapid at-home COVID-19 test from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Erik Engelson, a UC San Diego bioengineering and microbiology alumnus, is president and CEO of Lucira Health, which was founded by UC Berkeley bioengineering alumni. The Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit is a molecular test that uses…
May 5, 2020
With website, UC San Diego School of Medicine scientists will monitor health and well-being during and after pandemic.
January 19, 2022
Two computer scientists from the University of California San Diego have been elected as fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). They are among the 71 new fellows recognized by the ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
October 7, 2021
…hospitalizations prevented by the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the U.S. And yet significant segments of the population continue to resist vaccination—and comprise the vast majority of current COVID-19 hospitalizations. “Two primary themes run throughout the history of vaccine hesitancy, at least in terms of why some people fear or oppose…
April 15, 2021
…senior patients navigate the COVID-19 vaccination process Sitting in a wheelchair inside her modest Logan Heights home, Brenda Tanoi, 68, reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her family over the past year. It is a tale of tragedies. Janet Davis, a nurse-practitioner with UC San Diego Health’s Population…
May 14, 2020
…determine why a potential COVID-19 vaccine may be effective in some people but not others Image credit: Shutterstock/Kateryna Kon Scientists with UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering and the Qualcomm Institute have developed a new gene prediction algorithm, called MINING-D, that could help researchers investigate the genetic clues behind…
October 7, 2020
A team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego contributed to a study led by the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center on T cell receptors, which play a vital role in alerting the adaptive immune system to mount an attack on invading foreign pathogens, including Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
November 22, 2021
In May 2021, the Centers for Disease Control officially recognized that SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—is airborne. Now UC San Diego Professor and Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry Rommie Amaro has modeled the delta virus inside an aerosol for the first time.
September 19, 2022
…it harder to absorb oxygen, such as asthma and COVID-19.
