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Bioengineering Alumnus on COVID-19 Antiviral Pill Development Team

February 24, 2022

…effective dosage of new therapies in development. Most recently, Boras was part of the team at Pfizer that developed the Paxlovid COVID-19 antiviral pill, the first oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19 to receive FDA emergency use authorization. Boras shared what led him to UC San Diego, how his graduate degree…

New UC San Diego Campaign Promotes Sexual Health — and Has a Quick Test to Prove It

November 30, 2018

New UC San Diego campaign promotes sexual health and has a quick test to prove it. “Good to Go” offers combined testing for HIV and five sexually transmitted diseases, providing some results in as little as 60 seconds and access to free treatment, if needed. Updated clinic opening Dec. 10.

Sony Gifts Help Former Foster Youth at UC San Diego

November 16, 2012

Five UC San Diego students who are former foster youth were recently chosen to receive state-of-the-art Sony Electronics products. Two junior faculty members were also awarded digital tools to enhance their innovative teaching and research projects. This is the fourth year that Sony has partnered with UC San Diego and…

Researchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons From Pluripotent Stem Cells

January 25, 2012

Led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary Alzheimer’s disease (AD), using induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with the much-dreaded neurodegenerative disorder.

Supplementation with Amino Acid Serine Eases Neuropathy in Diabetic Mice

January 25, 2023

Working with mice, Salk Institute researchers, in collaboration with the University of California San Diego, have identified another factor contributing to diabetes-associated peripheral neuropathy: altered amino acid metabolism.

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.

Premature Baby Born in 1981 Delivers Premature Twins in 2022 at Same Hospital

June 20, 2023

Patient who was in the UC San Diego Health NICU in 1981 receives specialized care throughout life and delivers premature twins at the same hospital.

Engineering the Microbiome to Potentially Cure Disease

August 4, 2022

UC San Diego researchers report using native bacteria in mice as the chassis for delivering transgenes capable of inducing persistent and potentially even curative therapeutic changes in the gut and reversing disease pathologies.

Embryonic Brain Overgrowth Dictates Autism Severity, New Research Suggests

June 17, 2024

Researchers at UC San Diego found an unusually large brain may be the first sign of autism and visible as early as the first trimester.

Bringing UC San Diego’s Healthy Diet and Natural Medicine Research into the Spotlight

February 1, 2018

…This led him to generously establish the Krupp Endowed Fund in 1997 to support research overseen by the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine. The Center for Integrative Medicine was recently renamed the Centers for Integrative Health, and the Krupp Endowed Fund helped give birth to two of its…

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