September 15, 2023
Yatish Turakhia, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been named an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35. He was recognized in the Computing category for developing software tools to track and ma
November 8, 2012
…Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition and Genetics (PING) Project, a signature NIH genomics data resource. Two Center for Networked Systems researchers are the latest recipients of Google’s prestigious Research Award. Calit2 faculty and staff have filed 139 invention disclosures and produced almost 80 startups. The Center for Energy Research has been awarded…
May 14, 2024
James “Jim” Simons, co-founder of the Simons Foundation, renowned mathematician and quantitative investing leader, died on May 10 in New York City. He was 86. The Simons Foundation has provided more than $142 million to UC San Diego.
September 6, 2018
Writing in the current online issue of the journal Stem Cells and Development, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe development of a rapid, cost-effective method to create human cortical organoids directly from primary cells.
December 20, 2023
In a groundbreaking development in the field of anti-acne therapies, a team of researchers has created an acne vaccine that, when used in a mouse acne model, neutralizes a specific variant of an enzyme produced by an acne-associated bacteria while leaving the healthy bacterial enzyme intact.
August 23, 2018
The CIPRES science gateway, which supports major discoveries about evolutionary relationships among our planet’s living creatures, has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will provide more than $2.8 million to sustain and enhance the gateway.
June 10, 2015
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have launched a clinical trial to investigate the safety and efficacy of an unprecedented drug therapy for autism.
October 26, 2021
University of California San Diego researchers describe how a pair of fundamental genetic and cellular processes — aneuploidy and unfolded protein response — are exploited by cancer cells to promote tumor survival and growth.
July 3, 2012
Popularly dubbed “the book of life,” the human genome is extraordinarily difficult to read. In a paper published in the July 1, 2012 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine open the book further,…
April 30, 2014
When Brayden Burge was 15 months old, his parents noticed a significant drop in his skills and a sudden increase in illness. Brayden was taken to the University of California, San Diego Health System and diagnosed with mitochondrial disease.
