UC San Diego School of Medicine Recognized Among 2024 Best Medical Schools
July 22, 2024
San Diego’s only medical school earns the highest tier rating among research-intensive medical schools in the nation.
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A Gift from the Heart: Pauline Foster Gives $7.5 Million to Cancer Care Hospital
May 15, 2014
For Pauline Foster, community philanthropist and longtime supporter of the University of California, San Diego, giving $7.5 million in support of the new cancer care hospital at the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center is a gift from the heart—both her husband and brother died of cancer. The campus announced…
Father’s Life is Saved after Receiving Heart, Kidney and Liver Transplant
September 8, 2022
After a rare disease caused organ failure, UC San Diego Heath transplant teams performed a heart, liver and kidney transplant on a patient. The surgery is a first for UC San Diego Health and a first in the nation to use three organs from a donor after circulatory death.
Genetic Variation Explains Racial Disparity in Esophageal Cancer Cases
September 22, 2022
Researchers at UC San Diego have used artificial intelligence-guided tools to pinpoint both a specific type of immune cell as the driver of esophageal cancer and a specific genetic variation that acts as a protective factor in African Americans.
Stem Cell Injections Improve Spinal Injuries in Rats
May 28, 2013
An international team led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reports that a single injection of human neural stem cells produced neuronal regeneration and improvement of function and mobility in rats impaired by an acute spinal cord injury (SCI).
Study: AI Surveillance Tool Successfully Helps to Predict Sepsis, Saves Lives
January 23, 2024
Researchers with UC San Diego School of Medicine found that utilizing a unique AI algorithm to monitor several patient variables detected sepsis quicker.
When the Language of Cells is Interrupted
November 12, 2020
…start targeting them in therapies,” Newton said. UC San Diego’s cell signaling legacy UC San Diego’s global reputation as a leader in cell signaling research grew out of decades of discoveries. Susan Taylor, professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is best known for solving…
Growth-promoting, Anti-aging Retinal at the Root of Plant Growth Too
August 26, 2021
Publishing in the journal Science, a research team led by new UC San Diego biologist Alexandra Dickinson has identified a compound that plays a key role in triggering the development of plants’ lateral roots. Retinoids, known for medical uses, were found to be vital in plant growth.
UC San Diego in International Collaboration to Develop Wireless Implantable ‘Neurograins’
July 13, 2017
Five UC San Diego professors will receive $4MN as part of an international collaboration led by Brown University to develop grain-sized sensors, actuators and networking to be inserted into the cerebral cortex for brain research or repair. DARPA is funding the overall $19MN project announced this week.
Looking Back and Ahead, Shiley’s Vision Remains Clear
February 26, 2015
…tool and expertise, from genetics, bioengineering and pharmacy to pathology, neurosciences and stem cell research, to improve the treatment of eye diseases, find new cures and hasten the day when blindness is entirely preventable.” The institute will include the new Richard C. Atkinson Laboratory for Regenerative Ophthalmology, created last year…
