December 18, 2018
December 18, 2018 —
After living with debilitating phantom leg pain for 18 years, Raul Silva is excited about a new dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation device that erased his pain during a testing phase at UC San Diego Health, one of the only health care providers in the region offering the device.
August 14, 2018
August 14, 2018 —
UC San Diego Health and its medical and surgical specialties have again been nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report for 2018-19. Each year, U.S. News & World Report analyzes and reviews hospitals performance in a clinical specialties, procedures and conditions for its “Best Hospital” rankings. These rankings distinguish…
October 25, 2017
October 25, 2017 —
Understanding the control of cell growth has challenged biomedical researchers for decades. Efforts to meet this challenge may have received an encouraging boost, however, from University of California San Diego physics professor Terence Hwa and colleagues. Their research, published in the Oct. 25 issue of Nature, led to the surprising…
June 2, 2022
June 2, 2022 —
…to work in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries before pursuing a master’s degree in chemistry or a related field. Bojin Haji Bachelor of Arts in International Studies — Political Science Bojin Haji remembers dreaming about attending a university when he was growing up in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. Although it has…
September 7, 2011
September 7, 2011 —
Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to commercialize their ideas for new, lower cost health care technologies that will address a long-standing need for more affordable and efficient chronic disease management and…
October 25, 2022
October 25, 2022 —
Building upon a long history, the UC San Diego has launched a new Human Milk Institute to accelerate research into the biology and therapeutic potential of human milk to prevent or treat both infant and adult diseases. The new institute is believed to be the first of its kind in…
March 5, 2018
March 5, 2018 —
On March 12, 2018, UC San Diego Health will welcome its first patients to the Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion. Located on the La Jolla campus, the new 156,000-square-foot facility represents the most recent addition to the university’s world-class medical campus. In the past five years, UC San Diego Health has…
February 22, 2016
February 22, 2016 —
Ten teams of innovative students at UC San Diego have been awarded proof-of-concept funding to validate the product concepts behind their innovative projects.
January 14, 2019
January 14, 2019 —
An international group that includes researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has identified 124 genetic variants associated with a person’s willingness to take risks, as reported in a study published January 14, 2019 in Nature Genetics.
October 13, 2016
October 13, 2016 —
…School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Since joining the campus in 1971, Taylor played an instrumental role in recruiting top faculty to our campus, establishing the first basic science department in the School of Medicine, developing Ph.D. training in pharmacology, and providing mentorship to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. As…