June 17, 2013
Gordon, the newest high-performance supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, has proven to be a boon to biologists interested in rapidly sifting through an ever-expanding amount of data.
December 7, 2017
…Wen-An Pan, Ph.D. – Pharmacology Yan Liang, Ph.D. - Medicine Research Award for People’s Choice Poster Presentation Saeed Jerban, Ph.D. - Radiology Mark Lawson, the Director for the UC President Postdoctoral Program and Faculty Director for Postdoctoral Education and Training at UC San Diego, gave his congratulatory remarks to the…
January 9, 2014
…the sea,” where oceanography, pharmacology, biology, supercomputing and engineering, for example, collaborate in novel and surprising ways to solve real-world problems. “Taking on those ‘most pressing challenges’ increasingly involves insights, expertise, technologies and data sets from diverse areas of science and scholarship,” she says. “When titular oceanographers are finding compounds…
September 24, 2021
Washington investigated whether these computing systems could be hacked and how that would affect a driver’s ability to control their car. Now the team has received the Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
May 21, 2013
Capitalizing on UC San Diego’s unique ability to address environmental threats to public health, a new center based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will target emerging contaminants found naturally in common seafood dishes as well as man-made chemicals that accumulate in human breast milk.
March 6, 2018
The study, published in the March 5 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), describes how the supercomputing power of Gordon, Comet, and GPU clusters, all based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, were used with improved accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD)…
August 24, 2020
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that fructose only adversely affects the liver after it reaches the intestines, where the sugar disrupts the epithelial barrier protecting internal organs from bacterial toxins in the gut.
March 12, 2015
…in the department of pharmacology, where they learned from Terri Stoner about the blood brain barrier and vascular endothelial cells. UC San Diego chemistry and biochemistry lecturer Robert “Skip” Pomeroy recently visited Castle Park High School in Chula Vista to show students how vegetable oil can be converted into biodiesel.…
October 18, 2021
Leaders in cell biology and anti-malarial drug development respectively, JoAnn Trejo and Elizabeth Winzeler were recognized by their peers with one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
September 30, 2014
Four teams of scientists at UC San Diego will receive research grants from the National Institutes of Health that will help lay the groundwork for visualizing the circuits of the brain and how they work, the agency announced at a White House ceremony today.
