July 21, 2022
UC San Diego researchers describe a different way to build a COVID-19 vaccine, one that would, in theory, remain effective against new and emerging variants and could be taken as a pill, by inhalation or other delivery methods.
April 21, 2022
A UC San Diego medical student has won a prestigious fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States. Lawrence T. Wang, an MD-PhD candidate, was named among the 2022 recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and will receive up to $90,000 in…
April 9, 2020
…and humans. But effective vaccines can ultimately thwart such pathogens. “We have really good ways of making effective vaccines, and the hope is that this will hold for SARS-CoV-2 as well,” said Daugherty. “I take some comfort in knowing that these types of pandemics do pass and we will get…
October 1, 2020
UC San Diego Health will be a test site for a third, major Phase III clinical trial to assess a vaccine candidate for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Sponsored by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the trial will recruit up to 60,000 participants at sites in the United States and worldwide.
June 23, 2022
A $10 million grant over four years will support further examination of a national study looking at COVID-19 vaccination safety during pregnancy and immune response pre-and post-delivery for both mom and baby.
October 7, 2021
…Edward Jenner’s new smallpox vaccine, introduced six years earlier, could induce the growth of cow parts in vaccinated recipients. The smallpox vaccine was derived from cowpox, a relatively benign viral cousin to smallpox that triggered a similar immune response. The cartoon was intended to both lampoon the most extreme anti-vaccination…
November 2, 2023
Rommie Amaro, professor of molecular biology at UC San Diego, and her team use computers to investigate biological systems. Last year, their atomic-level computational model of the H1N1 influenza virus revealed vulnerabilities that could lead to more effective and longer-lasting flu vaccines.
January 13, 2022
According to a 2021 World Health Organization report, the global COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in tuberculosis (TB) deaths – 1.5 million in 2020 versus 1.4 million in 2019 – due to a lack of efficient diagnosis and treatment.
October 12, 2017
…employee receives a flu vaccination at the flu and hepatitis A drive. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications At the Front Lines of San Diego’s Hepatitis A Outbreak San Diego County is in the midst of an outbreak of hepatitis A, a viral infection spread person-to-person and through contact…
August 5, 2020
The National Institutes of Health will soon launch a Phase II clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of potential new therapeutics for COVID-19, including the use of investigational synthetic monoclonal antibodies. Davey Smith of UC San Diego is the protocol chair and answers questions.
