Scientists Discover a New Signaling Pathway and Design a Novel Drug for Liver Fibrosis
April 25, 2024
Scientists from the University of California San Diego discovered a novel signaling pathway in liver cells, leading to a treatment for fibrosis.
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Tested and Testing: UC San Diego Health Expands COVID-19 Diagnostics
April 6, 2020
UC San Diego Health makes measurable progress addressing COVID-19 testing shortage through multiple partnerships and rapidly growing in-house testing. Success has meant more testing for more patients, first responders and other health systems.
Two UC San Diego Biologists Named Pew Scholars
June 14, 2018
The Pew Charitable Trusts has announced that UC San Diego Biological Sciences Assistant Professors Matthew Daugherty and Enfu Hui have been selected to the 2018 class of Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Pew also announced that Diego Alvarez and Grisel Cruz Becerra, Biological Sciences postdoctoral researchers, have been named…
‘Frontiers of Innovation’ Program Seeds Seven Multidisciplinary Projects on Campus
January 29, 2015
…Center for Translational Computer-Aided Drug Discovery & Project Management Led by Rommie Amaro, James McKerrow Research Area: Enriching Human Life and Society UC San Diego Center for Compound Resources Led by William Gerwick, Dionicio Siegel Research Area: Enriching Human Life and Society William Gerwick, distinguished professor of oceanography and pharmaceutical…
Four Breast Cancer-Related Studies Seeking Participants
January 25, 2012
An active lifestyle and a healthy diet can help you feel more energetic, control your weight, help you sleep better, and reduce your risk of many diseases.
Transforming Transplantation
February 7, 2023
UC San Diego Health’s Center for Transplantation is among the nation’s best in lung, heart, kidney and liver programs, powered by long experience and deep expertise.
Novel Phage Therapy Saves Patient with Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infection
April 25, 2017
Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center – Biological Defense Research Directorate (NMRC-BDRD), Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages — viruses that target and…
UC San Diego Raises $3.05 Billion as Campaign for UC San Diego Concludes
July 14, 2022
…keep exploring, to keep discovering and to keep impacting the world around us.” Campaign for UC San Diego volunteer leadership played a critical role in the success of the Campaign. Honorary co-chairs Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Ernest Rady and T. Denny Sanford set the foundation for the Campaign’s success with…
UC San Diego Graduate Students Take Their Research to State Capitol
March 20, 2012
…the safety of prescription drugs in the era of Internet pharmacies and looking at how climate change affects animal and plant life in California. They shared research that could expand our understanding of how human languages are structured, how media shapes our worldview and the way we use reading and…
Stretchable, Flexible, Wearable Solar Cells Take Top Prize at Research Expo 2016
April 22, 2016
Solar cells that are stretchable, flexible and wearable won the day and the best poster award from a pool of 215 at Research Expo 2016 April 14 at the University of California San Diego. The winning nanoengineering researchers aim to manufacture small, flexible devices that can power watches, LEDs and…
