May 18, 2017
Antiva Biosciences, a spinout of UC San Diego, closed a $22M Series C financing in March. Antiva is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel, localized therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection. Osage University Partners, a venture capital firm partnered with UC San…
October 31, 2024
From supporting the health of our youngest patients, to driving innovative research and education in business, finance and biotechnology, to ensuring library resources for generations to come, UC San Diego’s 2025 Chancellor’s Medal and Lifetime Legacy Award honorees are making a remarkable impact on the world around us. The campus…
March 31, 2022
…School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences will hold a commencement celebration on May 14 at Price Center, and the School of Medicine will host a commencement ceremony on the Medical Education and Telemedicine (MET) Lawn on June 5. Journey to space NASA astronauts Christina Koch (left) and Jessica Meir work…
April 13, 2017
…professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences A physician-scientist, Victor Nizet is recognized internationally as a leader in the fields of microbial pathogenesis, innate immunity and innovative approaches to infectious disease therapy. He heads one of the largest research laboratories on campus. Since joining the faculty in 1997, Nizet has helped…
June 21, 2013
The academic landscape is changing rapidly, due in no small part to recent advances in technologies to enable, enhance and deliver teaching and learning to a worldwide audience.
February 6, 2017
Thanks to local and regional elected officials who helped assure passage of Assembly Bill 2664, the University of California San Diego has received $2.2 million from the UC system to help spur innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.
August 6, 2020
…School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Visual Arts. Together, their efforts counter the engineers and scientists who worked during the 1950s and ’60s to purposefully remove biodegradable aspects of the new plastics for maximum durability. Researchers in the new Center for Renewable…
March 18, 2021
…School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; and Dr. David "Davey" Smith, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health. To learn more about the panelists’ professional backgrounds, please visit the Evenings of Nonconventional Wisdom news story here. Now, a little over a year after the World Health…
February 2, 2018
The War on Drugs has been ongoing for several decades, yet its failure can be felt on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. In the last sixteen years, the opioid epidemic has claimed close to 125,000 lives in the U.S., whereas in Mexico the war on drugs has produced an…
November 28, 2023
Over the past three years, 20 faculty members have been hired at UC San Diego who are committed to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion using social justice frameworks. This fall, an additional $175,000 grant was received to support faculty retention and success.
