July 14, 2022
…establish both the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health and the T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion. In addition, more than 100 alumni and community members stepped up to lead this historic effort as members of the Campaign for UC San Diego Cabinet. Every…
February 3, 2022
…vastly outnumber our own cells, and that our bodies are fertile hunting grounds for viruses to attack their bacterial hosts. All of this goes on pretty much every second of every day, and we have very little insight into the fact that this is happening. “A key feature of bacteria…
September 1, 2022
…a third-year Molecular and Cell Biology student at Earl Warren College and a Faculty Mentor Program participant along with research partner Erik Wieboldt, a first-year Neurobiology student at Revelle College and Masters Mentorship Program and Triton Research and Experiential Learning Scholars Program participant; Shiantel Chiang, a third-year Neurobiology student at…
February 6, 2020
…the students created a cellphone app that gives amputees the power to scan their residual limb, send an autonomously-generated 3D model to a prosthetist, and have a custom-built prosthetic delivered right to them. The project has the potential to help organizations like Jaipur Foot reach many more amputees, especially those…
October 31, 2013
…neuroanatomist whose formal training stems from a wide background in the biological sciences and the neurosciences. I am experienced in neuroanatomical and histological techniques, as well as computer-aided microscopy and morphometry by image analysis, and have designed novel techniques for the quantitative study of neurological structures with MRI and histology.…
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 19, 2019
…in other hospitals. From stem cell and immunotherapies to transplantation and complex surgeries, patients arrive at the hospital seeking cures, or at least longer leases on life. Social Sciences/UC San Diego Health: Advancing College Mental Health Joseph Edelman Joseph Edelman, founder and CEO of life science-focused hedge fund Perceptive Advisors,…
March 17, 2022
…Yeo, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, met with students from the Bioinformatics Graduate Program (BGP), he could see they needed something beyond a statement from the leadership. “It was clear the graduate students were looking to have their voices heard,” said…
October 13, 2016
…Schechter Endowed Prize for Stem Cell Research and the Institute for Genomic Medicine. They have also shown a deep commitment to providing greater access to top-tier education for students of all socioeconomic backgrounds with donations to The Preuss School UCSD and the Chancellor’s Scholars Fund. In addition, Richard Hertzberg has…
January 30, 2014
…and calibrate the various cellphone-grade and toy-grade components that make it all work. WowWee designed the robot’s body and its user interface, including the smartphone app, and endowed MiP with its personality, which it expresses through sound and bright LED eyes. “The partnership between WowWee and UC San Diego is…
