UC San Diego Joins NIH ‘Bridge to Artificial Intelligence’ Program
September 13, 2022
UC San Diego scientists will lead several components of Bridge2AI, a new NIH-funded program to promote the use of AI in health and research.
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One Life, Two Viruses: HIV and SARS-CoV-2
August 20, 2020
…of these questions, Cachay designed a study that looks at what independent predictors, biological or psychosocial, contribute to a risk of adverse outcomes among people living with HIV who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 compared to those living with HIV who are not infected by the novel coronavirus. The dynamic model…
2019: A Space Organoid
July 8, 2019
UC San Diego will launch a payload of stem cell-derived human brain organoids to the International Space Station. Researchers will document how these “mini brains” organize into the beginnings of a functional brain with implications for the future of human life in space.
Study: Endometrial Cancer Treatment Has Significant Results
March 27, 2023
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health examined a new treatment approach for endometrial cancer.
UC San Diego Entrepreneurs Pitch Their Technologies in $300,000 primeUC Competition
January 7, 2016
…University of California program designed to give a boost to some of the system’s most promising life-science startups. The reward: a $150,000 purse for the grand prize winner, with three runner-ups each winning $50,000. The daylong competition, held at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus, was the inaugural event for…
Women Produce Skin Temperature Data that are Just as Predictable as Men
November 9, 2023
Women produce physiological data that is just as predictable as men, at least when it comes to skin temperature. This might seem like common sense, but variations in body signals due to menstrual cycles, such as temperature, were used as an excuse to keep women out of clinical studies for…
New Study Reveals Public Resistance to Use of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes for Disease Control
August 15, 2017
The study—led by QI affiliate Cinnamon Bloss—was published in today’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association and suggests a strong resistance to the use of genetically engineered mosquitoes for controlling disease.
UC San Diego’s Brightest to Share Groundbreaking Ideas at Founders’ Symposium
November 8, 2012
…to chemical energy. Using “designed for purpose” photosynthetic organisms, we have the opportunity to develop production platforms for fuel and food that have unmatched efficiencies and productivities, which will be required if the world is to rise to our standard of living. Why do you do what you do? I…
Student Changemakers Fight Human Trafficking
March 8, 2018
…globally, second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable form of transnational crime. “Human trafficking is widespread and it’s neglected,” said Ashley F. Halabi, a graduate student at UC San Diego’s School for Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). “It occurs is every country in the world. Many people have…
Private Support to UC San Diego Tops $130 Million for 2011-12 Fiscal Year
October 25, 2012
…Diego’s private support was designated for research. The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles supports “high risk/high reward” discoveries that enable campus researchers to translate innovative ideas into real world impact. The Foundation awarded funding to UC San Diego’s Steve Dowdy, a professor in the department of cellular and molecular…
